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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-04-28 01:26:03 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-04-28 01:26:03 +0400
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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
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diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/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
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+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