Re: PCI slots

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:03:46AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:45:10AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Cross-posting to the udev mailing list.
> 
> I was actually thinking that linux-scsi would be the more appropriate
> list for discussing the presentation of scsi bay information.  But maybe
> the udev list is the right place to hash this out first.
> 
> > I admit I don't quite understand udev. I do note that they have
> > managed to do the things they do without having had to deal
> > with physical location codes just yet.  But perhaps they're
> > interested, or have some commentary?  I am cross-posting 
> > the long unedited message there, to provide some background 
> > to the discussion.
> 
> It might be worth also including a link to the original message:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m\x119432330418980&w=2
> 
> and to let the udev people know that we already have a /sys/bus/pci/slots,
> but it's only populated for slots which have a hotplug driver currently.
> I was assuming that knowledge on the part of linux-pci folks, but the
> udev people might not know about it.

Heh, as the one of the udev "people" is the same person who added that
sysfs file to the tree, I think we might already know about this :)

Anyway, udev deals with device nodes, which pci slots do not really
matter for, so I doubt udev will need to handle anything at all here.

thanks,

greg k-h

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