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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
index 1084a15175e0..88674b0947fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/pci.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -634,8 +634,7 @@ struct pci_driver {
  * DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE - macro used to describe a pci device table
  * @_table: device table name
  *
- * This macro is used to create a struct pci_device_id array (a device table)
- * in a generic manner.
+ * This macro is deprecated and should not be used in new code.
  */
 #define DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(_table) \
         const struct pci_device_id _table[]