linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/86] pci: export pci

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Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:49:01 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/86] pci: export pci_ids.h and related cleanups

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:44:24AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> It could be that a small subset of pci_ids.h could be shared with
> user-space. I'm thinking of classes, because that list is short and
> stable, so we can give some stability guarantees. But I don't know if
> the user-space projects you quoted actually use that, so even that may
> not be worth it.
> 
> -- 
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support

Yes, class IDs is the part that's duplicated across multiple
userspace projects.

So exporting it is exactly what v2 of the patch did:
mid.gmane.org/1427714755-16873-1-git-send-email-mst@...hat.com

Please review that.

-- 
MST
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