From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Tristram.Ha@Micrel.Com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.33 4/4] net: Add PCI vendor and device ids for Micrel KSZ8841/2 PCI devices
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:27:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100204.202754.252960217.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14385191E87B904DBD836449AA30269D5CC333@MORGANITE.micrel.com>
From: "Ha, Tristram" <Tristram.Ha@Micrel.Com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:55:31 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Current practice is to NOT update this file and instead keep constants
> in the individual driver.
>
> It seems I received conflicted recommendation from Alan Cox:
Alan's understanding is several years out of date.
Stephen's is correct.
But you don't need these stupid defines at all, all you
use them for is the PCI device ID table in your driver
so just use constants.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 23:28 [PATCH 2.6.33 4/4] net: Add PCI vendor and device ids for Micrel KSZ8841/2 PCI devices Ha, Tristram
2010-02-04 23:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-05 2:55 ` Ha, Tristram
2010-02-05 4:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-04 23:40 ` David Miller
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2010-01-29 22:45 Ha, Tristram
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