linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 38/39] PCI: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE

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Date:	Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:15:06 +0900
From:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
To:	'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>,
	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	'Bjorn Helgaas' <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, 'Jingoo Han' <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/39] PCI: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 8:52 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 08:32 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > Don't use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro, because this macro
> > is not preferred. Also, the definition of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
> > macro is removed.
> 
> These sorts of treewide conversions are almost never
> applied wholesale.
> 
> This patch is not appropriate until there are no more
> uses of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE in Linus' tree.
> 
> Just marking the function as deprecated in the
> documentation and the pci.h file is probably good
> enough for now.
> 
> see:  http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/400

Actually, I want to remove all DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLEs from the
next 3.14-rc1 kernel, by merging all patches through Greg's tree.

Greg,
How about you?

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

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