Re: RFC: nuke pcidevs and usbdevs

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hasso Tepper wrote:
>  - Remove the usbdevs and pcidevs files. If the code wants to use defines
>    for vendor and/or device id's, it has to define them itself.

Con. Imho, it's better to keep things like these in one place, for 
easier maintenance and collision-spotting. The problem is we didn't 
really inherit pcidevs from FreeBSD, but added it later on, making lots 
of drivers ill-adjusted, or not adjusted at all, to pcidevs.

>  - As maintaining descriptions database makes sense only for PCI devices,
>    look at possibilities to generate structures for that from the
>    share/misc/pci_vendors file. If it's needed at all?

pci_vendors is from upstream, and does not necessarily correspond with 
what we want to present to the user.

Also, about drivers not using device strings, they should; but since we 
inherited pcidevs-less drivers from FreeBSD, only a small amount has 
been adapted to suit pcidevs.

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@netphreax.net

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