Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Grant Coady wrote:
> Just ran the discovery script on 2.6.13.mm2, there's roughly 1609 
> symbols unused in pci_ids.h, another 1030 are defined throughout the 
> source tree, leaving 729 in pci_ids.h.  Total unique symbols is 1030.
> Not counted are macro defined symbols: 
> 
> PCI_DEVICE_ID_##id
> PCI_DEVICE_ID_##v##_##d
> PCI_DEVICE_ID_BROOKTREE_##chip
> PCI_VENDOR_ID_##v
> 
> from:
> 
> linux-2.6.13-mm2/drivers/video/cirrusfb.c
> linux-2.6.13-mm2/sound/oss/ymfpci.c
> linux-2.6.13-mm2/sound/pci/bt87x.c
> 
> 
> What is the goal here?  Is a comment stripped, non-duplicate pci_ids.h 
> with a reference to source site okay? 

Not sure what your last question is asking.  The current goal is to 
remove completely unused symbols from pci_ids.h, nothing more.


> Should the various distributed defines be collected to the one header 
> file and that header be include'd to those files?  It seems pci_ids.h 
> is redundant.

pci_ids.h should be the place where PCI IDs (class, vendor, device) are 
collected.

Long term, we should be able to trim a lot of device ids, since they are 
usually only used in one place.

	Jeff