Re: [PATCH 2.6.33 4/4] net: Add PCI vendor and device ids forMicrel KSZ8841/2 PCI devices

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 23:27:45 EST


From: "Ha, Tristram" <Tristram.Ha@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:55:31 -0800

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Current practice is to NOT update this file and instead keep constants
> in the individual driver.
>
> It seems I received conflicted recommendation from Alan Cox:

Alan's understanding is several years out of date.

Stephen's is correct.

But you don't need these stupid defines at all, all you
use them for is the PCI device ID table in your driver
so just use constants.
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