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author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org> | 2006-04-29 01:42:26 +0100 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2006-04-29 01:42:26 +0100 |
commit | d6754b401a15eaa16492ea5dbaa4826361d3f411 (patch) | |
tree | 032f067d3af458527d903a7653885404ed82431e /Documentation/pci.txt | |
parent | acc429a517bd11fdcac9bea97d082d26231beb92 (diff) | |
parent | 693f7d362055261882659475d2ef022e32edbff1 (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5..66bbbf1d1ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -259,7 +259,17 @@ on the bus need to be capable of doing it, so this is something which needs to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. -8. Obsolete functions +8. Vendor and device identifications +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +For the future, let's avoid adding device ids to include/linux/pci_ids.h. + +PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx for vendors, and a hex constant for device ids. + +Rationale: PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx constants are re-used, but device ids are not. + Further, device ids are arbitrary hex numbers, normally used only in a + single location, the pci_device_id table. + +9. Obsolete functions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are several functions which you might come across when trying to port an old driver to the new PCI interface. They are no longer present |