On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Hello Greg > > >> > >> Not many drivers define the pci interface and there is no other driver > >> that has the same vendor and product id. Therefore I see no hurt in > >> adding both patches, one to make the driver broader, and another to > >> fix pci-sysfs. > >> > >> Also, the change on pci-sysfs might affect more stuff and therefore > >> take longer to be applied. > > > > As we have been printing the value to userspace in this way for well > > over a decade now, and nothing has changed, I say it's a userspace bug > > that you should fix instead. Don't work around broken user programs in > > the kernel by changing something that has been stable for 10+ years. > > > > Ok, sorry, not 10+ years, the commit was written May of 2005, so 9 > > years. > > > > Fix your module loading code please. > > On the other thread ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/27/242 ) we have > agreed about fixing this thing on pci-sysfs.c . > > Still I think that there is no good reason to add the pci interface to > the pci_table on this driver. Therefore I consider that this patch is > still valid. > > What do you think. This patch is NACK? Yeah, I don't think this patch is needed as it properly sets the class of the device to be matched against, so it should not be necessary at all. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
