Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-20T16:00:43Z

At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for
> all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI
> bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the
> mapping between eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise
> available (outside the kernel).
>
>Won't work with hotplug PCI (consider plugging in something with a
>bridge).

It's true that hotplug devices make it more complicated, but I think
the result can be achieved by describing the correspondence
topologically rather than as a simple b/d/f-to-location table.
--
/Jonathan Lundell.