From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:13:10 +0000 Subject: Re: PCI slots Message-Id: <20071106221310.GA22999@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20071106174509.GP4415@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20071106174509.GP4415@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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&m9432330418980&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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel