On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:59 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:44:49 +0200 > Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Seth, > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:33:39 -0700, Seth Heasley wrote: > > > This patch adds the SMBus controller DeviceID for the Intel Panther Point PCH. > > > > With each new chip, we have to add the SMBus device ID to pci_ids.h, > > then wait for Jesse to merge that, and only then I can apply the > > changes to i2c-i801.c. This approach slows things down needlessly. > > > > It isn't mandatory to add IDs to pci_ids.h when an ID is only used > > locally in a device driver. So what I would like to propose is that we > > move all PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_*_SMBUS declarations from pci_ids.h to > > i2c-i801.c now. Then you can resubmit your Panther Point patches, and > > the pci and i2c parts will be independent, so Jesse and myself don't > > depend on each other to apply them. > > > > What do you think? Jesse, any objection? > > > > Seth, if you agree, I can take care of the move, or you can send a > > patch doing that, whatever you prefer. > > Yeah, that makes sense. I'd be happy to take a patch to pull the > defines out of pci_ids.h and push them into the x86 irq.c and your i2c > code. I really only had i2c in mind. For irq it's a little different because it relates to devices which are kind of generic and the IDs could be (and, I think, are) used in more than one place (such as quirks.c) for at least some of these devices. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html