Re: [PATCH 12/25] char: Convert pci_table entries to PCI_VDEVICE(if PCI_ANY_ID is used)

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:32:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:44:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 21:29 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:00:15PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > I much prefer the PCI_DEVICE() macro instead, and as such, I'm not
> > > > willing to take any of these patches, sorry.
> > > grepping for pci device ids using constants and
> > > expecting the result to be comprehensive isn't
> > > sensible.
> > But it's a nice goal :)
>
> I think your goal is not a good one.
>
> For instance:
>
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\bPCI_VDEVICE\s*\(\s*INTEL" drivers | wc -l
> 201
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\bPCI_DEVICE\s*\(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL" drivers | wc -l
> 45
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\bPCI_DEVICE\s*\(\s*0x8086" drivers | wc -l
> 38
>
> I'd much rather do a search for "PCI_VDEVICE.*INTEL"

I'd much rather use 'cscope' or 'ctags' than trying to remember regular
expressions like the above.

greg k-h
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