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[PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids
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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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ingo Oeser authored and gregkh committed Apr 27, 2006
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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
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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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