On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:15:46PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:09:32PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > the closest we have is drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and we might just should > > > have Greg create a usb-ids.h file. > > > > Ick, no, there's no such file for a good reason. Put your device ids in > > the driver files, no need to share it across the whole kernel. > > I agree. In fact, I'd go further, and say that the bulk of what we have > in pci_ids.h is also pointlessly shared. Only a tiny fraction of the device > entries in that file are used by multiple files in the kernel. I agree with that as well, which is why when I was PCI maintainer, I didn't allow any new additions to the pci_ids.h file, unless it was going to be an id that was shared by different drivers. That cut the new additions down to about none :) 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
