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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Linking interfaces to slots
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:37:13 -0700
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Steve Modica wrote:
> 
> If one wanted to figure out which ethX was in which PCI slot on which 
> bus, what would be the most acceptable mechanism?  The drivers have 
> access to all this info, but then each driver would need some ioctl 
> added. Is there some more generic place in the kernel that could be 
> modified such that /proc/net/dev could hold this information?

On 2.6 there's /sys/class/net/ethX/device,
and ethtool_drvinfo.bus_info support should exist too...

- Dave