Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264862AbTFERYe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:24:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264865AbTFERYe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:24:34 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:6842 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264862AbTFERYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:24:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:36:57 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list , "David S. Miller" , bcollins@debian.org, tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: /proc/bus/pci Message-ID: <20030605173657.GA8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Linus Torvalds , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list , "David S. Miller" , bcollins@debian.org, tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, Anton Blanchard References: <1054816598.22103.6151.camel@cube> <20030605160007.GZ8978@holomorphy.com> <1054833800.813.43.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054833800.813.43.camel@gaston> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 22 At some point in the past, I wrote: >> I've never seen this; however, I've seen "PCI segment" used in some >> Intel docs. I do agree that neither "phb" nor "hose" are particularly >> nice nomenclature. On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:23:21PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > imho, calling a domain a "segment" is plain wrong, I'd rather call > "segment" a single electrical PCI bus ... > Note: I'm to blame for polluting ppc32 with the "hose" name in > variable/function names =P I wouldn't particularly advocate segment over anything, I've merely seen it used. I think we're all happy with "domain" (and are more concerned with the functional issues anyway). -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/