Re: [PATCH] sysfs stuff for eisa bus [1/3]

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:56:36 -0500


Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:55:15PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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> >First patch is contains the infrastructure and the naming database :
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> Is the database not very incomplete?
> What use is a very long and very incomplete list?
> Just like for USB and PCI it might be more reasonable to
> have such a list with IDs on a website instead of in the
> kernel source?

While I do agree your criticisms are fair, I think they apply to the
overall system and not specifically to Marc's EISA code. I've been
hoping that someone would do the infrastructure work necessary to
support drivers in a pci_driver-like fashion, and I'm glad Marc has done
this.

That said, tangent to your argument, I would also like to separate the
PCI ids from the C source code -- but still compile the PCI id table
into the .o file by default. There are certainly other uses for the PCI
id table, but I think sufficient additional flexibility is afforded
simply by the movement of the id table at source code level.

Jeff

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