From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 12:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 12:00:34 -0400 Received: from geos.coastside.net ([207.213.212.4]:4048 "EHLO geos.coastside.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 12:00:18 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010521021619.A6946@metastasis.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <811opRpHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <811opRpHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <81BywVLHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <20010521021619.A6946@metastasis.f00f.org> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 08:57:09 -0700 To: Chris Wedgwood From: Jonathan Lundell Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Cc: Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for > all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI > bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the > mapping between eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise > available (outside the kernel). > >Won't work with hotplug PCI (consider plugging in something with a >bridge). It's true that hotplug devices make it more complicated, but I think the result can be achieved by describing the correspondence topologically rather than as a simple b/d/f-to-location table. -- /Jonathan Lundell.