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- Lines: 24
- Date:
Fri May 5 12:37:52 2000
- Orig file:
v2.3.99-pre6/linux/Documentation/pci.txt
- Orig date:
Sat Feb 26 22:31:37 2000
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.99-pre6/linux/Documentation/pci.txt linux/Documentation/pci.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@
name Name of the driver
id_table Pointer to table of device ID's the driver is
- interested in
+ interested in. Most drivers should export this
+ table using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci,...).
+ Set to NULL to call probe() function for every
+ PCI device known to the system.
probe Pointer to a probing function which gets called (during
execution of pci_register_driver for already existing
devices or later if a new device gets inserted) for all
@@ -59,9 +62,8 @@
deregistration of the driver or when it's manually pulled
out of a hot-pluggable slot). This function can be called
from interrupt context.
- suspend, Power management hooks (currently used only for CardBus
- resume cards) -- called when the device goes to sleep or is
- resumed.
+ suspend, Power management hooks -- called when the device goes to
+ resume sleep or is resumed.
The ID table is an array of struct pci_device_id ending with a all-zero entry.
Each entry consists of:
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