On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 17:26 +0200, Benoit Taine wrote: > We should prefer `const struct pci_device_id` over > `DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE` to meet kernel coding style guidelines. > This issue was reported by checkpatch. What kernel coding style? checkpatch isn't the arbiter of style, if that's the only problem. The DEFINE_PCI macro was a well reasoned addition when it was added in 2008. The problem was most people were getting the definition wrong. When we converted away from CONFIG_HOTPLUG, having this DEFINE_ meant that only one place needed changing instead of hundreds for PCI tables. The reason people were getting the PCI table wrong was mostly the init section specifiers which are now gone, but it has enough underlying utility (mostly constification) that I don't think we'd want to churn the kernel hugely to make a change to struct pci_table and then have to start detecting and fixing misuses. James _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
