Added comment on -m

git-archimport-id: mj@ucw.cz--public/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-95

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2f76a15e30d93a2839d078b9c6c4d5f48310d2bd..1a0f10cfe722ff91ffdd0cb03bb20ae816aedf3a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-03-21  Martin Mares  <mj@ucw.cz>
+
+       * lspci.man: Added a warning on -m being the only format, which is
+       guaranteed to be stable between lspci versions.
+
 2006-03-13  Martin Mares  <mj@ucw.cz>
 
        * lspci.man: Documented the -D switch.

diff --git a/lspci.man b/lspci.man
index 07f153069af0a925258560e9421d46f2d7f6b7dc..c28deb40d0f7f539c4517253c1006c4b86fb84fc 100644 (file)
--- a/lspci.man
+++ b/lspci.man
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ as the PCI ID list instead of @IDSDIR@/pci.ids.
 .TP
 .B -m
 Dump PCI device data in machine readable form (both normal and verbose format supported)
-for easy parsing by scripts.
+for easy parsing by scripts. Please don't use any other formats for this purpose, they
+are likely to change in the future versions of lspci.
 .TP
 .B -D
 Always show PCI domain numbers. By default, lspci suppresses them on machines which