Re: [PATCH] PCI: restore 2 missing pci ids

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Feb 02, 2006, at 00:19, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:11 -0600, Mark Rustad wrote:
>>
>>> Why were the ids removed in the first place?
>>
>>
>> Because they weren't used by anything in the tree.
> 
> 
> Also, the new PCI-ID policy is to put the defines in the driver  itself, 
> near where it is used, instead of collecting them in a single  file.  
> The goal is to minimize the number of unused PCI IDs in the  tree by 
> keeping the definition near the usage.

No, if you do create a constant for a PCI ID, it still should go into 
include/linux/pci_ids.h.

Putting them in the driver will result in highly variable naming 
policies, which in turn means the constants are less grep-able than today.

Device IDs simply do not need an associated constant, if they are used 
only in a PCI ID table.  Device IDs are arbitrary numbers that are 
normally only used once in a source file.

Vendor IDs are used repeatedly, and definitely belong in pci_ids.h. 
Device IDs make sense in pci_ids.h if they are used more than once.

	Jeff