Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:48:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
To: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] New driver information
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Heikki Orsila wrote:

> I just read
> 
> 	http://kerneltrap.org/node/7729
> 
> and it occured to me that it would be informative to have a new device 
> driver macro. The motivation for the new macro would be 4 issues:
> 
> 	* Is it possible to get specifications for the device?
> 	* If yes, under what terms? (nda, public)
> 	* Where to get public specs?
> 	* How many closed and open drivers in the Linux source tree?

This doesn't make any sense as a driver macro, because it's per device, 
not per driver. E.g., the sdhci driver drives a number of devices, 
including both well-documented devices and devices whose only 
documentation is that the PCI ID matches (and they work with only a few 
quirks).

On the other hand, a kconfig-readable table of PCI, USB, etc IDs with this 
information isn't a bad idea, especially if the drivers actually depend on 
it (so that it has to be kept up to date, at least as far as the 
device/driver mapping).
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