Re: [ACPI] [RFC/PATCH 3/3] ACPI based I/O APIC hot-plug

[Bjorn H. <bjo...@hp...>]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:38 +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > 
> >>+		if ((dev->class >> 8) != PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PIC)
> >>+			continue;
> >>+		if ((dev->class & 0xff) == 0x10 || (dev->class & 0xff) == 0x20)
> > 
> > 
> > What are 0x10 and 0x20?  Looks like they should be #defines in
> > include/linux/pci_ids.h.
> 
> 0x10 and 0x20 are programing interfaces for I/O APIC and I/O xAPIC
> respectively. #define for these values looks good. But I don't know
> if I can put new #defines into pci_ids.h and how to name them because
> I could not find the header file (including pci_ids.h) that #defines
> the values for programming interfaces. So I want to add the comments
> to explain these values (0x10, 0x20) instead of adding new #defines into
> pci_ids.h for now.

I think your patch should just add the values to pci_ids.h.  If
somebody doesn't like that, he or she will complain and you can fall
back to just using 0x10 and 0x20.  But I suspect it will be fine.