Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Jonathan Lundell]

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.
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