Re: pci_ids.h - duplicate entry and many out of order definitions

[Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:09 +1000, "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

>I was browsing the pci_ids.h file and came across a duplicate entry
>for PCI_VENDOR_ID_RDC. This prompted me to look further and I found a
>number of out-of-order definitions (based on the comment at the head
>of the file that indicates that they should be sorted). I decided to
>write a script to check this and it found 74 "errors".
>
>1) Is it worth my time generating a patch to fix all these mis-orderings?
>2) Should it be one large patch or many small ones (eg one per PCI_VENDOR)?
>3) Is there a maintainer for this file?

Dunno about a maintainer, I did a cleanup over the thing a couple years 
ago and GregKH was taking the patches.  

Also need to check that people not making PCI_* names up with macros in 
drivers as that reduces grep usability.  

Think there's a new PCI maintainer now?

Grant.