Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: PCI bus name on PowerPC platforms

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/03/2014 15:21, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> >>alpha/typhoon.c:    b = pci_register_bus(dev, "pci",
> >>mips/gt64xxx_pci.c:     phb->bus = pci_register_bus(dev, "pci",
> >>pci-host/apb.c:    phb->bus = pci_register_bus(DEVICE(phb), "pci",
> >>pci-host/bonito.c:    phb->bus = pci_register_bus(DEVICE(dev), "pci",
> >>sh4/sh_pci.c:    phb->bus = pci_register_bus(DEVICE(dev), "pci",
> >>pci-host/versatile.c:    pci_bus_new_inplace(&s->pci_bus, sizeof(s->pci_bus), DEVICE(obj), "pci",
> >>
> >>plus pseries which has its own rules because it supports multiple PCI
> >>host bridges, but probably can also be changed from "pci" to NULL.
> >
> >I'm not sure I understand the effect of changing 'pci' to NULL in this
> >code, from libvirt's POV. Would using NULL mean we can rely on using
> >"pci.0" as the default PCI bus name or not ?
> 
> Yes.  But the next bus that the user creates (e.g. from a PCI bridge
> without an "id") would be "pci.1" instead of having a duplicate
> "pci.0").  Needs a bit more testing of course.

That sounds OK from libvirt's POV, since when we create secondary buses
we'll always set an ID value explicitly anyway.

Regards,
Daniel
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