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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI/pci.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/pci.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt index 8d4dc6250c58..fd4907a2968c 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt @@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ need pass only as many optional fields as necessary: o class and classmask fields default to 0 o driver_data defaults to 0UL. +Note that driver_data must match the value used by any of the pci_device_id +entries defined in the driver. This makes the driver_data field mandatory +if all the pci_device_id entries have a non-zero driver_data value. + Once added, the driver probe routine will be invoked for any unclaimed PCI devices listed in its (newly updated) pci_ids list. |