Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:40:31 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Naming devices
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> Isn't this what dev->bus_id in the device structure is supposed to be?
> (which is supposed to be a unique bus ID on a particular bus type, in
> the pci case, a PCI device.)

We could use that, although for ppc64 Id like to increase its size and
stash the physical location in there as well.

> Now that the point has been raised, it seems pretty obvious that
> initialisation failures should report the BUS ID of the failing card,
> not the logical name assigned by the system to that device which could
> change.  Once the card is up and running, using the logical name becomes
> meaningful - it's the identifier which user space uses to reference the
> device.

Sounds good to me.

Anton
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