Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:04:35 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [0/4] NUMA-Q: remove PCI bus number mangling |
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:58:24PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:53:49PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> Right, I'm not against the sysdata thing, seems like a much better way > >> to do it in general (what I did was a quick hack). Was just confused > >> by the global bus number assertion, but if we use the sysdata stuff, > >> it's all a non-issue ;-) > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > Non-issue for merging... > > The pain isn't over yet. =( > > Core PCI code is assuming unique bus numbers in several places. > > Okay, an attempt to remedy this world-breaking braindamage with the > fewest lines of code: > > This alters PCI bus number "clash" detection to compare ->sysdata in > addition to the numbers. The bus number is not a unique identifier.
Um, why not?
And what would /sys/bus/pci/devices look like if you allow the same identifiers for different devices? :)
thanks,
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