From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartmann <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: no more device ids
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:20:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604181120.55783.netdev@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443BEB92.6040104@pobox.com>
From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
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: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
--- old/Documentation/pci.txt 2006-03-28 08:49:02.000000000 +0200
+++ new/Documentation/pci.txt 2006-04-18 11:13:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -259,7 +259,17 @@
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
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