On 4 December 2015 at 12:50, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > To finally answer your question: the proper owner of the property > connecting the backend is the frontend half of the split device. So, if > we have separate device models for controller and the block devices > connected to it, the block backend property belongs to the latter, not > the former. If we have separate device models for SD controller and > card, the block backend property belongs to the card, not the > controller.
I thought this might be your answer, but this is problematic because we now have a device in the tree (the sdhci pci card) which has the property on the controller, and so that's now user-facing command line ABI which we can't change... thanks -- PMM