Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:20:16 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: PCI patch for 2.3.18 |
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Hello,
> > o Helper functions for PCI device init and resource allocation. > > o create devlist.h and pci_ids.h from pci.ids > > Per my previous mail just sent ;) I'm interested in working on these.
I'd like to write the resource allocation helpers myself, but if you want to work on the devlist/pci_ids thingy, you will be greatly welcome.
> You need to add a symbol name to pci.ids, right?
The problem is whether we want to generate pci_ids.h automatically or not.
One possible approach is to let pci_ids.h contain only device names really used in kernel drivers and keep all known devices just in devlist.h and use numeric ID's for them. This prevents us from including a zillion of useless #define's in all PCI drivers and it also doesn't require extending pci.ids by adding kernel specific names.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, not Linus Torvalds, but God."
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