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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-04-27 14:26:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-04-27 14:26:03 -0700 |
| commit | 94b1661d08a27a8d2b1b0127c272987b0ab4ad6a (patch) | |
| tree | 770f24b91cefd9bb689cf9af0df32fb0e92c34b2 /Documentation | |
| parent | 4e9a4b71f1eb23f35c394eb2b388dbe0389d316a (diff) | |
| parent | 75cf7456dd87335f574dcd53c4ae616a2ad71a11 (diff) | |
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
[PATCH] PCI quirk: VIA IRQ fixup should only run for VIA southbridges
[PATCH] PCI: fix potential resource leak in drivers/pci/msi.c
[PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids
[PATCH] PCI: fix via irq SATA patch
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pci.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5f..66bbbf1d1ef6 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 |