Re: [PATCH] Document pci_ids.h addition policy.

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:13:59PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:33:26AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>  
>  > > I agree. In fact, I'd go further, and say that the bulk of what we have
>  > > in pci_ids.h is also pointlessly shared. Only a tiny fraction of the device
>  > > entries in that file are used by multiple files in the kernel.
>  > 
>  > I agree with that as well, which is why when I was PCI maintainer, I
>  > didn't allow any new additions to the pci_ids.h file, unless it was
>  > going to be an id that was shared by different drivers.  That cut the
>  > new additions down to about none :)
> 
> Perhaps documenting this is a good idea to prevent things being moved there,
> as it still seems to be happening judging from the git log.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
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