Re: C99 Initialisers

[Dave Jones]

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.

		Dave

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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