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Message-ID: <47CFE561.2070104@southpole.se>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:36:49 +0100
From: Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: struct pci_device_id declaration cleanups
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote:
>> This set of patches applies the macro DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE to the
>> declarations of struct pci_device_id in several network drivers. The drivers
>> build cleanly with these patches (without any new warnings) on both x86 and
>> PowerPC.
>
> Why would we want this macro? It looks slightly ugly at least..
>
>
Basically because the alternative would be along the lines of:
static const struct pci_device_id fst_pci_dev_id[] __devinitconst = {
...and this was deemed to be even uglier when I first brought this up a
while back.
/Jonas
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