Re: [0/4] NUMA-Q: remove PCI bus number mangling

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:29:28PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
>> I know I just sent this to you, but I've been meaning to repost this 
>> to lkml anyway.  Here's something I wanted to add to the generic topology 
>> infrastructure for a while.  pcibus_to_node()
>> Have a look at this patch, and see if it might be useful to you, ok?
>> Cheers!
>> -Matt

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:35:04PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'll remove the bus number mangling from it so it uses ->sysdata
> instead, make it an additional stage of the patch series and convert 
> arch/i386/pci/numa.c to use it instead.
> Bus number mangling has been vetoed numerous times; the agreed-upon
> method of dealing with this is stuffing arch-private information in
> ->sysdata and dispatching on that within PCI config access routines.

Also, every PCI bridge in my box has a bus number of 3 so the lookup
table will produce wrong answers every time.


Bill