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| author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2015-03-30 10:32:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2015-04-09 13:34:02 -0500 |
| commit | 37a9c502c0af013aaae094556830100c2bb133ac (patch) | |
| tree | 372f57cb17e5ea6e748f1f3c7335e78d74d7be86 /Documentation | |
| parent | e33caa82e221b0bbeba373b507e3f134dc2efa1a (diff) | |
PCI: Clarify policy for vendor IDs in pci.txt
Clarify pci.txt so it matches the "do not add new entries unless they are
shared between multiple drivers" comment in include/linux/pci_ids.h.
[bhelgaas: changelog, strengthen language]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/pci.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt index 9518006f6675..123881f62219 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt @@ -564,14 +564,14 @@ to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. 8. Vendor and device identifications ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -One is not required to add new device ids to include/linux/pci_ids.h. -Please add PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx for vendors and a hex constant for device ids. +Do not add new device or vendor IDs to include/linux/pci_ids.h unless they +are shared across multiple drivers. You can add private definitions in +your driver if they're helpful, or just use plain hex constants. -PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx constants are re-used. The device ids are arbitrary -hex numbers (vendor controlled) and normally used only in a single -location, the pci_device_id table. +The device IDs are arbitrary hex numbers (vendor controlled) and normally used +only in a single location, the pci_device_id table. -Please DO submit new vendor/device ids to pciids.sourceforge.net project. +Please DO submit new vendor/device IDs to http://pciids.sourceforge.net/. |