From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:07:18 +0200
Message-ID: <20070114230718.GB3874@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970701141131n24bb371di2c941c681b4afdf8@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:31:01AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> >> Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table
> >> with the macros defined in pci_ids.h
> >>
> >Hi,
> >
> >hmm this is actually the opposite direction than most of the kernel is
> >heading in, mostly because the pci_ids.h file is a major maintenance
> >pain.
> >
> >Afaik the current "rule" is: if a PCI ID is only used in one driver, use
> >the numeric value and not (add) a symbolic constant.
> >
>
> My guess is that the RNG is on the LPC so the values are used in a few
> places..
>
Will pci_ids.h be removed from the tree some time in the future then ?
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-14 17:24 Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-14 17:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-14 19:31 ` Dave Airlie
2007-01-14 23:07 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-01-15 0:29 ` Greg KH
2007-01-15 7:16 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-15 17:50 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-15 0:29 ` Greg KH
2007-01-15 9:17 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-15 20:38 Ahmed S. Darwish
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