Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc5] tg3: add bcm5752 entry to pci.ids

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Chan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 12:30 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
>
> > I'll apply this, thanks John.
> >
> > pci.ids needs several updates for tg3 in fact, and it
> > also now needs entries for bnx2 as well.
>
> The bnx2 IDs are already in, probably from sourceforge. And the tg3 IDs
> look reasonably complete to me.
>
> So in the future, do we need to patch this file or just let sourceforge
> take care of it?
Honestly, pci.ids is such a non-critical file, unless DaveM disagrees I 
would strongly encourage people to -only- send pci.ids updates to 
sourceforge.
pci.ids is only used in one location -- deprecated /proc/pci -- and will 
be removed in the next year or so, I imagine. Further, pci.ids is 
periodically sync'd en masse from sourceforge into the kernel by janitors.
Users should be using 'lspci' not /proc/pci, and lspci takes it data 
from sourceforge database not the kernel.
        Jeff