Re: [PATCH 01/86] pci: export pci_ids.h

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Mar 30 2015 - 07:35:28 EST


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:19:14PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Why there much more that two packages, I can find
> at least 5 copies in the wild. Why? I think it's because it's part of
> linux ABI that doesn't have matching headers. People are asked to build
> their own, so of course they copy each other.
>
> Once linux exports these headers everyone can stop
> duplicating each other and others, and just use linux headers too.

As I'm not the PCI maintainer anymore, I'll let Bjorn decide about this.

But, your original patch series isn't ok, we don't want to export the
pci vendor/device ids to userspace, that isn't the job of the kernel to
do so. If we should be exporting the pci class and config structures or
not is Bjorn's decision.

greg k-h
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