linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] make pci

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:45:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] make pci_ids lowercase hexa

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:08:31AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Greg KH napsal(a):
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:44:52PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> make pci_ids lowercase hexa
> > 
> > Why?  What good is this going to do in the long run?
> 
> It's just cleanup to get rid of things like this:
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20246	0x4d33
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20262	0x4d38
> -#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20263	0x0D38
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20263	0x0d38
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20268	0x4d68

Get rid of what?  What's wrong with upper case hex numbers?  This seems
like a pretty gratitous change to me.

> But still not necessary, if you think, it's useless -- but why don't
> have whole document formatted in one way. However this patch needs a
> -fix if ACKed due to bad regexp used (omitted '*' changes only the
> first uppercase letter found). If NACKed, this doesn't matter.
> 
> > Also, shouldn't you send pci specific patches like this to the pci
> > maintainer?  :)
> 
> Hell yes :/, every second time I post something, somebody is missing
> in the CC list, grr.

Care to resend your other fixes to me, if you still think they are
needed?

thanks,

greg k-h
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