Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-27 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:06 -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Oliver Neukum oneu...@suse.de wrote: Hi, I would like to kill drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and replace it with numerical IDs in the files using it. There are two reasons for that. 1. It is a

Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-27 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 09:49 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:06 -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: Well, yes, so you needed to grep for MULTI_INPUT. The entries would still have been present, just with nummerical IDs. Especially as I see stuff like this: 0c3910c255

Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-27 Thread Benjamin Tissoires
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Oliver Neukum oneu...@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:06 -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Oliver Neukum oneu...@suse.de wrote: 2. It serves no purpose and adds work. Anyone who adds a quirk or a special case for

Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-27 Thread Benjamin Tissoires
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Oliver Neukum oli...@neukum.org wrote: On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 09:49 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:06 -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: Well, yes, so you needed to grep for MULTI_INPUT. The entries would still have been present, just with

Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-27 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Oliver Neukum wrote: I would like to kill drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and replace it with numerical IDs in the files using it. There are two reasons for that. 1. It is a layering violation. There should not be a private data base for USB IDs in HID. Not really; it's not

proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-26 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi, I would like to kill drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and replace it with numerical IDs in the files using it. There are two reasons for that. 1. It is a layering violation. There should not be a private data base for USB IDs in HID. 2. It serves no purpose and adds work. Anyone who adds a quirk or a

Re: proposal for deletion of drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

2015-03-26 Thread Benjamin Tissoires
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Oliver Neukum oneu...@suse.de wrote: Hi, I would like to kill drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and replace it with numerical IDs in the files using it. There are two reasons for that. 1. It is a layering violation. There should not be a private data base for USB IDs