From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Naming devices
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:40:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030519034031.GI8994@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030518233634.C4224@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
> Isn't this what dev->bus_id in the device structure is supposed to be?
> (which is supposed to be a unique bus ID on a particular bus type, in
> the pci case, a PCI device.)
We could use that, although for ppc64 Id like to increase its size and
stash the physical location in there as well.
> Now that the point has been raised, it seems pretty obvious that
> initialisation failures should report the BUS ID of the failing card,
> not the logical name assigned by the system to that device which could
> change. Once the card is up and running, using the logical name becomes
> meaningful - it's the identifier which user space uses to reference the
> device.
Sounds good to me.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-18 21:33 Naming devices Anton Blanchard
2003-05-18 22:36 ` Russell King
2003-05-19 3:40 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2003-05-19 1:22 ` Daniel Stekloff
2003-05-19 1:48 ` David S. Miller
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