linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/86] pci: export pci

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:41:28 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
	Peter Neubauer <pneubauer@...erwhite.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/86] pci: export pci_ids.h

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:35:16PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:19:14PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Why there much more that two packages, I can find
> > at least 5 copies in the wild. Why? I think it's because it's part of
> > linux ABI that doesn't have matching headers. People are asked to build
> > their own, so of course they copy each other.
> > 
> > Once linux exports these headers everyone can stop
> > duplicating each other and others, and just use linux headers too.
> 
> As I'm not the PCI maintainer anymore, I'll let Bjorn decide about this.
> 
> But, your original patch series isn't ok, we don't want to export the
> pci vendor/device ids to userspace, that isn't the job of the kernel to
> do so.  If we should be exporting the pci class and config structures or
> not is Bjorn's decision.
> 
> greg k-h


I sent v2 doing exactly that.
Thanks a lot for the review.

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MST
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