Re: [PATCH] Move various PCI IDs to header file

Greg KH
2006-05-05T13:36:20Z

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:45:52AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> >On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:09:45 -0500 (CDT) Brent Casavant wrote:
> >
> >>Move various QLogic, Vitesse, and Intel storage
> >>controller PCI IDs to the main header file.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
> >>
> >>---
> >>
> >>As suggested by Andrew Morton and Jes Sorenson.
> >
> >as compared to:
> >http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b860b8c4bde5949b272968597d1426d53080532
>
> I guess Andrew and I should be blamed for that. I Andrew suggested
> putting the IDs in the 'right place' and I took the right place as being
> the pci_ids.h file.
>
> Can't say I agree with the recommendation, having them in pci_ids.h is
> nice and clean and it allows one to go look through the list, instead
> they now really become random hex values :( Brent's patch is a perfect
> example of IDs being used in multiple places, ie. the qla1280 driver
> and in the IOC4 driver, so the claim in that Documentation/ file doesn't
> hold water.
>
> Anyway, if this is the new rule, then I guess it's back to using the
> ugly patch :(

No, I agree with your patch, as you are having to reference the ids from
2 different files. So because of that, I feel it's ok to have those ids
in the pci_id.h file.

Yes, the wording in the documentation file should be cleaned up a bit to
state this a bit better...

thanks,

greg k-h