Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:49:42 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: C99 Initialisers |
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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
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