Re: C99 Initialisers
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 20:38:34 EST
Dave Jones wrote:
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.
Fundamentally, the PCI ID list is not C code. And if anyone ever wants
to get to the PCI ID lists at the _source code_ level, they have to
parse C or assembler :) It's data, so I say, put it in a data file.
Stuffing the PCI ID list in C code is a sometimes convenient, sometimes
inconvenient form of packaging, nothing more :)
I would rather store the PCI ID list in a more natural form, and then
use small tool to generate the pci_device_id tables that are linked into
the kernel.
Jeff
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