Re: reiser4 plugins

David Masover
2005-06-26T17:51:48Z

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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:52PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
>
>>I seem to remember the comment was more about hardcoded ID tables.
>>
>>And this was the generic ID code database, which is now maintained out
>>of the kernel:
>>
>>/usr/share/misc/pci.ids
>> A list of all known PCI ID's (vendors, devices, classes and sub-classes).
>>
>>That is what I was referring to, that used to be in the kernel.
>
>
> And you once again showed that you don't understand what you're talking
> about. Said database is a pci id to name mapping, which is completely
> irrelevant for any driver. For things like your example there's very
> little thing you can do but hardcoding a set of pci ids in one way or
> another.

I hope I admitted ahead of time that I don't understand what I'm talking
about. For the record -- in this particular example, I don't.

But, the distinction is irrelevant. PCI id to name mapping used to be
(I think?) in the kernel, it was ugly. It may not have been where the
chainsaw comment was, though.

>>What this has to do with is whether you believe that it's better to keep
>>code out until it's perfectly clean, or to let in code that has some
>
>
> I doesn't need to be perfect, we just need it in a reasonable state and
> have a buying that it's going to continue to evolve in the rigýt direction.
>
> And we're are very far from both of them in this ccase.

I believe that we are closer to both of those than much of what's
already in the kernel. Sorry I picked such a bad example, though.

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