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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/17] qdev: Fix scanning across
	single-bus devices
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:58:01 +0100
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> As long as we allow /dev.1 as shortcut for /dev1/bus1, we also have to
> make sure that /dev1/dev2 works for /dev1/bus1/dev2/bus2 - as long as
> there is only one child bus per device.

How about we make this explicit in the syntax by having a different separator 
for bus names. e.g. /dev1:bus1/dev2:bus1. Omitting the :bus is then 
unambiguous.

Paul