Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:02:26 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: C99 Initialisers | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> |
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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.
Maybe I read too much into it. It made me think of Jeff's previous remarks about driver config and help being close to but split from driver source code. I saw (read) it as an extension of that: a way to package all driver information neatly close together, but in separate files. Someone could modify the config, help, or IDs file(s) without mucking with the driver source file(s).
~Randy
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