Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>]

On Thursday 08 November 2007, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> They already show up underneath of the PCI bus.  The issue is that there 
> are two separate 'struct device's for each virtio device.  There's the 
> PCI device (that's part of the pci_dev structure) and then there's the 
> virtio_device one.  I thought that setting the dev.parent of the 
> virtio_device struct device would result in having two separate entries 
> under the PCI bus directory which would be pretty confusing 

But that's what a device tree means. Think about a USB disk drive: The drive
shows up as a child of the USB controller, which in turn is a child of
the PCI bridge. Note that I did not suggest having the virtio parent set to
the parent of the PCI device, but to the PCI device itself.

I find it more confusing to have a device just hanging off the root when
it is actually handled by the PCI subsystem.

	Arnd <><

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