Re: [PATCH] add pci revision id to struct pci_dev

Ar Llu, 2006-11-06 am 15:19 +0100, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> store it in the pci device struct, it's a very logical thing esp since
> the pci device/vendor ids are stored there too (and those you can also
> read from the hw if you want ;)

We need those cached because we iterate them on every PCI device match
and that is both regularly accessed and performance relevant. We also
need to cache them for the removed device case, unlike revision id.

> 
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