Re: pci bridge suspend/resume (Re: PCI not restored correctly after suspend to ram)

[Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:07:47AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> The match function would, for instance, return a lower value for a
> device driver matching only the class IDs, a higher ID for a device
> driver matching only the vendor ID, vendor ID + device ID, and the
> highest value for vendor ID + device ID + class ID.

The details seem a little silly.  If I know the vendor + device IDs, that
implies the class ID.  I'd say:

1	Class ID
2	Vendor + Device
3	Vendor, Device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device

That allows for a driver to take over a sym chip that's really part
of a raid device, for example.

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