Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-37,: Re: PCI patch for 2.3.18

# Re: PCI patch for 2.3.18

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:20:16 +0200

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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

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