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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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