Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI: restore 2 missing pci ids | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 02:01:41 -0500 |
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On Feb 02, 2006, at 00:19, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:11 -0600, Mark Rustad wrote: >> Why were the ids removed in the first place? > > Because they weren't used by anything in the tree.
Also, the new PCI-ID policy is to put the defines in the driver itself, near where it is used, instead of collecting them in a single file. The goal is to minimize the number of unused PCI IDs in the tree by keeping the definition near the usage.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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