Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271245AbTHMAuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:50:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271279AbTHMAuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:50:24 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:28579 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271245AbTHMAuX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:50:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:49:42 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Jeff Garzik , greg@kroah.com, willy@debian.org, davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers Message-ID: <20030813004941.GD2184@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Randy.Dunlap" , Jeff Garzik , greg@kroah.com, willy@debian.org, davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20030812020226.GA4688@zip.com.au> <1060654733.684.267.camel@localhost> <20030812023936.GE3169@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030812053826.GA1488@kroah.com> <20030812112729.GF3169@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030812180158.GA1416@kroah.com> <3F397FFB.9090601@pobox.com> <20030812171407.09f31455.rddunlap@osdl.org> <3F3986ED.1050206@pobox.com> <20030812173742.6e17f7d7.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030812173742.6e17f7d7.rddunlap@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 891 Lines: 23 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:37:42PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > | I would much rather move the PCI ids out of the > | drivers altogether, into some metadata file(s) in the kernel source > | tree, than bloat up tg3, tulip, e100, and the other PCI id-heavy > | drivers' source code. > > That last few lines certainly sounds desirable. What exactly would be the benefit of this ? The only thing I could think of was out-of-kernel tools to do things like matching modules to pci IDs, but that seems to be done mechanically by various distros already reading the pci_driver structs. Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/