Re: [PATCH 2.6.33 4/4] net: Add PCI vendor and device ids forMicrel KSZ8841/2 PCI devices

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 18:40:25 EST


From: "Ha, Tristram" <Tristram.Ha@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:28:29 -0800

> From: Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add PCI vendor and device ids for Micrel KSZ8841/2 PCI devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@xxxxxxxxxx>

We no longer add device ID defines to the linux/pci_ids.h
file, in fact it's been this way for several years.

Just use constants or local devices in your driver.

Furthermore, because you made this the last patch, the
tree would fail to build at the point where the first
three of your patches are applied.

This breaks GIT bisection, and is severely frowned upon. The tree
must build with all available kernel config options enabled at every
step of applying your set of patches.
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