linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001/001] usbserial: New mobile broadband modems to be supported through option module

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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:47:16 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Dirk DeSchepper <ddeschepper@...l.com>,
	USB development list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	smurf@...rf.noris.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001]  usbserial: New mobile broadband modems to be
	supported through option module

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:23:06PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Friday 06 February 2009 19:51:30 schrieben Sie:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:58:39PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Am Friday 06 February 2009 12:29:06 schrieb Dirk DeSchepper:
> > > > From: Dirk De Schepper <ddeschepper@...l.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Patch for option.c, based on kernel v2.6.28.3
> > > > - New Novatel and Dell mobile broadband modem products added
> > > > - Dell pid variables used in stead of numerical PIDs for known products
> > > 
> > > This is not really an advantage. You usually get the nummeric IDs
> > > just fine from lsusb. And you could easily see the nummeric order of entries.
> > > These symbolic names do not appear in code, just in the macros
> > > where their meaning is clear. You introduce a useless level of indirection.
> > 
> > No, it's fine, we can use all of the descriptive information that we can
> 
> Which descriptive information? The symbolic names used are internal
> to the kernel.

Exactly, and people look at kernel code all the time :)

> > get at times.  So changing the defines from a generic one, to a specific
> > one to match the device type, only helps out in the end.
> 
> The specifity is not affected at all.

If you look at the names that were changed, they are now more
descriptive than before, always a good thing to have.

thanks,

greg k-h
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