Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:36:20 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] pci_name()
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:35:25AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I'd kind of like to get rid of pci_dev->slot_name.  It's redundant with
> pci_dev->dev.bus_id, but that's one hell of a search and replace job.
> So let me propose pci_name(pci_dev) as a replacement.  That has the
> benefit of being shorter than either of the others and lets us do fun
> & interesting things later (maybe construct it on the fly for systems
> that want to save 20 bytes per device?).  We can transition it in over
> 2.5/2.6/2.7 and kill pci_dev->slot_name for 2.8.

That sounds reasonable.  But do we really need to do this for 2.6?

Just trying to keep things sane...

thanks,

greg k-h
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