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Commit 9b860b8c authored by Ingo Oeser's avatar Ingo Oeser Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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[PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids 



Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids
but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h

Original text from Jeff Garzik.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 8b4929e6

Documentation/pci.txt

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@@ -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

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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