Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-47,: Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for drivers/scsi in 2.4.0-test11

# Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for drivers/scsi in 2.4.0-test11

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:11:48 -0800

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> writes:

>Neither there are lots of NULL-initilized fields nor is
>there any reason to add new fields (the pci tables are external
>API, because of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE).

PCI ID matching relies on the zeros being filled in for
an empty value in the case of class_mask. depmod deliberately
includes a format comment at the start of modules.pcimap so that the
structure can be changed in the future.

However, thanks for your feedback. I will take it into
consideration.

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