lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Nov]   [12]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [0/4] NUMA-Q: remove PCI bus number mangling
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,

greg k-h
-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:30    [W:0.062 / U:0.448 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site