From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: david.fox@linspire.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc2 pci_ids.h cleanup is a pain
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:25:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122162558.702fae4a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051121224438.GA18966@kroah.com>
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:27:23PM -0800, David Fox wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm not the only person that applies patches to the kernel that
> > use some of the 500 plus PCI IDS eliminated from pci_ids.h by rc2. I
> > would like to see the PCI ids that were removed simply because the don't
> > occur in the main kernel source restored. Is there a rationale for
> > removing them that I'm not aware of?
>
> They were not being used. Why would you want them in there?
Because they contained useful information which had been accumulated by
many people over a long period of time.
Throwing that information away seemed rather pointless, especially as the
cost of retaining it was so low.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-23 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 22:27 David Fox
2005-11-21 22:31 ` Phil Oester
2005-11-21 22:44 ` Greg KH
2005-11-23 0:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-23 1:51 ` Grant Coady
2005-11-23 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-23 4:19 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-23 7:55 ` Grant Coady
2005-11-23 21:41 ` Grant Coady
2005-11-24 4:00 ` Dave Jones
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