Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

Jeff Garzik
2001-06-16T21:33:04Z

"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik writes:
> > ok with me. would bus #0 be the system or root bus? that would be my
> > preference, in a tiered system like this.
>
> Bus 0 is controller 0, of whatever bus type that happens to be.
> If we want to do something special we could create something
> like /proc/bus/root or whatever, but I feel this unnecessary.

Basically I would prefer some sort of global tree so we can figure out a
sane ordering for PM. Power down the pcmcia cards before the add-on
card containing a PCI-pcmcia bridge, that sort of thing. Cross-bus-type
ordering.

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