Re: [PATCH 8/8] bdc_pci: use PCI_VDEVICE() instead of PCI_DEVICE()

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

On 10/5/2015 6:16 AM, Greg KH wrote:

> > Fix using the PCI_DEVICE() macro instead of less verbose PCI_VDEVICE().

> Why?

   Seemed a good idea to me back in March. :-)

> I hate PCI_VDEVICE(), it's impossible to grep for things and does

   Didn't think about grepping...

> not help with readability and is pointless.  My one wish was that when I
> was the PCI maintainer I would have just deleted the thing from the
> kernel entirely instead of leaving it there hoping no one would use it.

   Thanks for the idea. :-)

> I don't like these types of pointless patches, sorry.

   I hope you don't have the same strong feelings about PCI_DEVICE_SUB().
There's one place (in ohci-pci.c IIRC) it can be used...

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

MBR, Sergei

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