Re: [PATCH 1/1] adding PCI vendor id for STmicroelectronics

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Anders.Wallin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_STMICRO		0x104A
> 
> Why is this needed?
> 
> Did you read the comment at the top of this file?

To be fair, ST Micro make a fair variety of chips.  I can imagine there
being multiple drivers that want to use the ST Micro vendor ID.  I think
the rule makes sense for device IDs, but not for vendor IDs.

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