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| author | James Bottomley | 2006-06-10 20:47:26 +0200 |
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| committer | James Bottomley | 2006-06-10 20:47:26 +0200 |
| commit | f0cd91a68acdc9b49d7f6738b514a426da627649 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ad73564015794197583b094217ae0a71e71e753 /Documentation/pci.txt | |
| parent | [SCSI] spi transport: don't allow dt to be set on SE or HVD buses (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff) | |
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Merge ../linux-2.6
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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 |