RFC: nuke pcidevs and usbdevs

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Sep 27 06:59:49 PDT 2007


On Thu, September 27, 2007 8:11 am, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> So, my proposal is:
>
>  - Remove the usbdevs and pcidevs files. If the code wants to use defines
>    for vendor and/or device id's, it has to define them itself.
>  - As maintaining descriptions database makes sense only for PCI devices,
>    look at possibilities to generate structures for that from the
>    share/misc/pci_vendors file. If it's needed at all?
>
>
> Waiting for comments.

How will this affect bringing in support for new devices from other BSD
flavors?  Will it requires additional changes to imported code - to a
greater extent than the usbdevs file now, for instance?

If it's just that step being skipped, it sounds like a fine idea.






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