Re: RFC qdev path semantics (was: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce canonical device hierarchy string)

Paul Brook
2010-06-16T10:40:49Z

> * Else, use TYPE.NUM, where TYPE is derived from the bus type, and NUM
> is the bus number, as above.
>
> ### Paul proposes to either drop TYPE.NUM (and require drivers to
> provide bus names), or make NUM count separately for each bus type.

I revised this proposal: Drop the .NUM part, and require drivers provide a bus
name if TYPE would result in ambiguous names.

Paul