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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:57:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 5/6]: hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver
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Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
>>Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:41:01AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>>

>>Okay -- I'll go with Eike's suggestion above.  D_B_S + 1 number.
> 
> 
> D_B_S alone should be a unique identifier, so please don't use anything more 
> if you don't need it to make the slot name unique.
> 

On Altix, since the system can be cabled in a number of ways a pointer to the 
rack ID is definately useful and helps to uniquely identify the slot.  I'm going 
to use a 2 digit rack id, followed by the DDDD:BB:SS value.

P.