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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2013-12-13 11:36:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2013-12-13 11:36:22 -0700 |
| commit | 92e112fdbb3cb55b43390426501a7efacd893b96 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f77ae248e2e7fc8a5633e2feb6e83e5c0f0de5f /Documentation | |
| parent | 5b764b834ea925b7fc87df4a87a0fde95acbecb9 (diff) | |
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PCI/checkpatch: Deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
Prefer use of the direct definition of struct pci_device_id instead of
indirection via macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.
Update the PCI documentation to deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE. Update
checkpatch adding --fix option.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/pci.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt index 6f458564d625..9518006f6675 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt @@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ initialization with a pointer to a structure describing the driver The ID table is an array of struct pci_device_id entries ending with an -all-zero entry; use of the macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE is the preferred -method of declaring the table. Each entry consists of: +all-zero entry. Definitions with static const are generally preferred. +Use of the deprecated macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE should be avoided. + +Each entry consists of: vendor,device Vendor and device ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID) |