Re: [PATCH] [3/3] PCI segment support

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:38:24PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:44:11AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >  - Add segment to pci_bus.
> >  - Change the sysfs name of each device to include a 16-bit segment ID.
> 
> First of all, the "segment" name is extremely misleading. PCI spec
> assumes everywhere that "segment" is a group of devices sitting
> on the same wires (ie primary and secondary buses of the PCI-to-PCI
> bridge are *different* segments).

I don't mind changing it to `domain', I prefer the term myself.
ACPI calls it `_SEG' so I went with segment.

> Second, why not
> 
> -	strcpy(dev->dev.bus_id,dev->slot_name);
> +	sprintf(dev->dev.bus_id, "%04x:%s", pci_controller_num(dev),
> +		dev->slot_name);
> 
> ?

Because it's possible to have multiple pci root bridges in the same
pci domain.  This is true on at least HP's ia64 & parisc boxes.

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