Re: [PATCH 00/86] pci: export pci_ids.h and related cleanups

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Apr 02 2015 - 06:09:10 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 11:04:16AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Le Thursday 02 April 2015 à 01:23 -0700, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> > The class ids are a hardware defintion, not a kernel API. Just use the
> > definitions from libpci, or copy over the kernel header if you prefer
> > it over the libpci definutions.
>
> I agree with Christoph, such defines would better come from
> pciutils-devel, not the kernel.

This just leads to code duplication. Projects that don't link with
pciutils don't want to depend on it.

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