Re: [PATCH 7/8] pci: Add CircuitCo VENDOR ID and MinnowBoard DEVICE ID

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 10:32 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

>> +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_CIRCUITCO              0x1cc8
>> +
>>  #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_TEKRAM         0x1de1
>>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_TEKRAM_DC290   0xdc29
>
>
> Thanks Bjorn. When I reuse this Subsystem ID and there is more than one
> usage, I should send a patch to pci_ids.h adding it and replace the hex
> value in all drivers with the new define. Is that right?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

But Peter's comment makes more sense to me now.  The spec refers to
that config register as "Subsystem ID," not "Subsystem Device ID," but
I was confused because most existing usage treats it as a device ID.
For example, the field in struct pci_device_id is named "subdevice,"
and all the existing #defines in pci_ids.h are of the form
PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_*.

Device IDs are pretty specific identifiers, so I was thinking that a
"sub-device ID" would be even more specific.  Then it would make no
sense to have a "sub-device ID" that was as generic as "MINNOWBOARD."
But the register is actually *not* a "sub-device ID," and I can see
that using the same Subsystem ID for all the devices on a board might
make sense.

So I think the name PCI_DEVICE_ID_CIRCUITCO_MINNOWBOARD is a bit of a
misnomer, and something like PCI_SUBSYSTEM_CIRCUITCO_MINNOWBOARD would
make it more clear that it really isn't sharing the device ID space
assigned to CircuitCo.  It would make perfect sense to have a Device
ID, e.g., "PCI_DEVICE_ID_CIRCUIT_CO_xxx 0x0001," that has nothing to
do with the Subsystem ID 0x0001.

If you want to do something like that (or even keep your original
patch), I can put that in my -next branch.  Just let me know.

Bjorn
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