Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:15:28 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Changes for PCI |
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Tom Gall wrote: > The first part changes number, primary, and secondary to unsigned ints from > chars. What we do is encode the PCI "domain" aka PCI Primary Host Bridge, aka > pci controller in with the bus number. In our case we do it like this: > > pci_controller=dev->bus->number>>8) &0xFF0000 > bus_number= dev->bus->number&0x0000FF), > > Is this reasonable for everyone?
Why not use sysdata like the other arches?
Changing the meaning of dev->bus->number globally seems pointless. If you are going to do that, just do it the right way and introduce another struct member, pci_domain or somesuch.
Jeff
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