Re: what's in a bus_info

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>]

On 11/04/2011 04:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 16:31 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:

>> I guess that wraps back around to the question of whether there is a
>> "standard" for what should be in bus_info.  And if it is impractical to
>> get the PCI bus information,
>
> I'm not that familiar with virtio, but would I be right in thinking that
> the virtio 'bus' device is likely to be the child of a PCI device?  So
> then you mgiht want to get bus_name() for the grandparent of the net
> device:
> 	dev_dev = dev->dev.parent->parent;
> (possibly checking for nulls).

I'll take a look.

> If there's some reasonable way to distinguish a 'real' from a virtual
> bus then we could have the generic implementation try to follow parents
> until it finds a bus device.  However I think the device model
> maintainers have been gradually moving away from the bus/class
> distinction and so we may not be able to do that.
>
>> whether it is better to return virtioN or
>> ethN.  Or perhaps something else entirely.
> [...]
>
> Returning the device name seems entirely unhelpful since the user
> already has that.  'virtioN' is perhaps not much better though.

Agreed, but thought I should ask :)

rick