linux-pci.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Jordan Hargrave <jharg93@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave@dell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for reading SMBIOS Slot number for PCI devices
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:57:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150721165759.GD21967@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC1AzdfFjPrfvg2iBYXY5JDKhbVH3LPQdh5LzyjMaBFSNDBi6Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 09:57:32AM -0500, Jordan Hargrave wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jordan,
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:02:46 -0500, Jordan Hargrave wrote:
> > > From: Jordan Hargrave <Jordan_Hargrave@dell.com>
> > >
> > > There currently isn't an easy way to determine which PCI devices belong
> > to
> > > system slots.  This patch adds support to read SMBIOS Type 9 (System
> > Slots).
> >
> > I'm wondering, can't you use dmidecode or libsmbios to retrieve the
> > same information?
> >
> > --
> > Jean Delvare
> > SUSE L3 Support
> >
> 
> You can but it's as not easy to determine the slot number for leaf devices
> on bridges.  Eventually planning on using this for pulling slot number for
> identifying network cards and disk numbering for systemd

Can you outline the problems with using dmidecode or libsmbios?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-10 22:02 [PATCH] Add support for reading SMBIOS Slot number for PCI devices Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-13  7:35 ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]   ` <CAC1AzdfFjPrfvg2iBYXY5JDKhbVH3LPQdh5LzyjMaBFSNDBi6Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-07-13 15:11     ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-21 16:57     ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2015-07-21 17:31       ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-22  1:09         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-07-22 20:07           ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-23 17:24             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-07-24  2:31               ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-24  3:11                 ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-11-10 14:40                   ` Jordan Hargrave
2015-07-21 18:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-07-21 18:56   ` Jordan Hargrave

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20150721165759.GD21967@google.com \
    --to=bhelgaas@google.com \
    --cc=Jordan_Hargrave@dell.com \
    --cc=jdelvare@suse.de \
    --cc=jharg93@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-pci@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).