On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:21:52PM -0500, David Masover wrote: > I seem to remember the comment was more about hardcoded ID tables. > > And this was the generic ID code database, which is now maintained out > of the kernel: > > /usr/share/misc/pci.ids > A list of all known PCI ID's (vendors, devices, classes and > sub-classes). > > That is what I was referring to, that used to be in the kernel.
And you once again showed that you don't understand what you're talking about. Said database is a pci id to name mapping, which is completely irrelevant for any driver. For things like your example there's very little thing you can do but hardcoding a set of pci ids in one way or another. > What this has to do with is whether you believe that it's better to keep > code out until it's perfectly clean, or to let in code that has some I doesn't need to be perfect, we just need it in a reasonable state and have a buying that it's going to continue to evolve in the rig?t direction. And we're are very far from both of them in this ccase.
