[PATCH] PCI document: Add brief introduction of Physical Slot

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Signed-off-by: WANG Siyuan <wangsy30@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 74eaac2..1cca102 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -107,6 +107,23 @@ desired, e.g. 0xa0000 for the VGA frame buffer.  The application can then
 simply dereference the returned pointer (after checking for errors of course)
 to access legacy memory space.
 
+PCI Physical Slot
+--------------------------------------
+
+PCI Physical Slot is defined by ACPI object _SUN of the firmware. The Physical
+Slot can be used by application such as lspci.
+The slot information is located in /sys/bus/pci/slots/<name>/
+e.g.
+	/sys/bus/pci/slots/2/
+	|-- adapter
+	|-- address
+	|-- attention
+	|-- cur_bus_speed
+	|-- latch
+	|-- max_bus_speed
+	|-- module -> ../../../../module/acpiphp
+	`-- power
+
 Supporting PCI access on new platforms
 --------------------------------------
 
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2.7.3
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