netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE

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Message-Id: <20100107.235444.238609921.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:54:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE()

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:34:47 +0200

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:28:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> On 01/07/2010 05:25 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 23:58 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> >> Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE() so we get place PCI ids table into correct section
>> >> in every case.
>> >
>> > Good idea, but aren't there are some tables that are not const?
>> 
>> I hope not...  those tables are read by userland tools.
> 
> I checked non-static ones, they are readonly.
> and PCI layer expects them to be readonly.

Great, patch applied, thanks!
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