On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:59:45AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 15:36 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > The macros in pci_ids.h are pretty useful for userspace > > using the pci sysfs interface, e.g. to decode class > > device and vendor sysfs files. > > > > At the moment userspace is forced to duplicate these macros (e.g. QEMU does > > this, so does gpxe, seabios, etc), it is better to export them in > > /usr/include/linux/pci_ids.h so everyone can just include this header. > > > > This patchset is structured as follows: > > 1. include/linux/pci_ids.h is moved to include/uapi/linux/pci_ids.h; > > a stub file is created in include/linux/pci_ids.h to avoid breaking > > bisect > > 2. all users are converted to use the new header > > 3. include/linux/pci_ids.h is removed > > 4. cleanups for several issues detected during step 2 > > > > The patchset was built on several architectures (mips/ppc/x86), > > boot-tested on x86 only - build seems sufficient for this kind of > > change. > > > > I think the pci tree is the most appropriate for this patchset. > > Please review it, and consider for 4.1. > > Hello again Michael. > > It's nicer if you send this cover letter to all mailing lists > that receive any of the individual patches so that people can > reply to the 0/n patch and a single discussion thread can > happen for generic issues for the entire patchset. > > It'd be even nicer to cc all of the maintainers of any of the > sections modified, but vger mailing lists reject any email > with more than 2k of email headers. Unfortunately, patchsets > for multiple subsystems create long cc lists that generally > exceed this limit. Exactly. That's also why I had to split the patchset - at least the individual patches are Cc'd fully then. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
