From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:30:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added comment on -m
X-Git-Tag: v3.0.0~70
X-Git-Url: http://mj.ucw.cz/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ac70402ed0bba99e6a1685a2b442e5ae8795dd1;p=pciutils.git

Added comment on -m

git-archimport-id: mj@ucw.cz--public/pciutils--main--2.2--patch-95
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2f76a15..1a0f10c 100644
--- 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 07f1530..c28deb4 100644
--- 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