From 216f618ae34edc78df5218210e7c24c7cb402428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Oeser Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:20:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 26258 b: refs/heads/master c: 9b860b8c4bde5949b272968597d1426d53080532 h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/pci.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 4b51e640687d..c3dac03d9e64 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 8b4929e6a01620b55700e102e40e37ef02844849 +refs/heads/master: 9b860b8c4bde5949b272968597d1426d53080532 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/pci.txt b/trunk/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5f..66bbbf1d1ef6 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/trunk/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