Re: [PATCH 38/39] PCI: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro

Joe Perches
2013-12-02T23:52:19Z

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 08:32 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> Don't use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro, because this macro
> is not preferred. Also, the definition of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
> macro is removed.

These sorts of treewide conversions are almost never
applied wholesale.

This patch is not appropriate until there are no more
uses of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE in Linus' tree.

Just marking the function as deprecated in the
documentation and the pci.h file is probably good
enough for now.

see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/400