RFC: nuke pcidevs and usbdevs

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Thu Sep 27 22:42:35 PDT 2007


Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> I am fine with defining PCI device ids in each driver, but I think we
> should add a head file in sys/bus/pci that defines PCI vendor ids
> (e.g. split vendor ids part out of pcidevs.h).

Sascha already answered to that. I can only say that in USB land (from
usbdevs context) things are worse in order of magnitude.
 
> As about PCI devices' description, I don't think they worth the
> trouble; they are just eyes candies.

I'm almost sure that many disagree. We can make it optional/module maybe?
But there is one thing we certainly shouldn't do - to obfuscate the info
in the dmesg that we don't output vendor/device id pair if device has the
description. We do it currently and this is really bad IMHO.


-- 
Hasso






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