Re: [PATCH] PCI: create device, function symlinks in /sys/bus/pci/slots/N/

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

* Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:21:00PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > Create convenience symlinks in sysfs, linking slots to
> > devices and functions, and vice versa. These links make it
> > easier for users to figure out which devices actually live in
> > what slots.
> 
> This looks it would be quite useful but the symlinks are not
> adjusted during hot-add and hot-remove operations (e.g. stale
> symlinks persist after hot-remove and new symlinks are not
> created in response to hot-add) so it could confuse more than
> help on systems with PCI hotplug support.

Hi Gary,

Yes, you're right. Willy's original version of the patch had
symmetric functions in pci_release_dev/pci_scan_device, which I
didn't include because I didn't understand why we needed that
code.

Now I understand. :)

Thanks for pointing it out. I'll work on this for v2.

/ac