PCI: Create revision file in sysfs
Currently the revision isn't available via sysfs/libudev thus if one wants to know the value one needs to read through the config file, which can be quite time-consuming because it wakes/powers up the device. There are at least two userspace components which could make use the new file: libpciaccess and libdrm. The former wakes up _every_ PCI device, which can be observed via glxinfo when using Mesa 10.0+ drivers. The latter, in association with Mesa 13.0, can lead to 2-3 second delays while starting firefox, thunderbird or chromium. Link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98502Tested-by: Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch CC: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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