new pci id for atheros - ar9287

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:32:26AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Leann Ogasawara
>> <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> Just a heads up, ath9k on 2.6.32 added support for ar9287, just added
>> >> the PCI ID to pciids.sf.net, on Karmic this means 9.10 won't support
>> >> this device unless users use lbm. Not sure if you guys want to pick up
>> >> a patch for the PCI ID at least for karmic though.
>> >
>> > Hi Luis,
>> >
>> > If the patch were to go into upstream 2.6.31.y stable we'll get the
>> > patch automatically when we rebase Karmic with upstream stable.
>>
>> OK -- I wasn't sure if stable kernels get pciids.sf.net *new* updates.
>> Greg do they?
>
> The kernel doesn't care about pci.ids, there is no such file within it.
> That is in the pciutils package.
>
> The kernel does have the include/linux/pci_ids.h file, but the kernel
> developers don't really want any new additions to that file unless it is
> absolutely necessary, see the top of the file for the rules.

Makes sense -- this should just be moved to userspace.

I still think its good to have this up to date on systems on distributions.

 Luis