Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: [...] > Bus names are chosen by the system as follows: > > * If the driver of the parent device model provides a name, use that. > > * Else, if the parent device has id ID, use ID.NUM, where NUM is the bus > number, counting from zero in creation order. > > * Else, use TYPE.NUM, where TYPE is derived from the bus type, and NUM > is the bus number, as above. > > ### Paul proposes to drop ID.NUM.
ABI change: "-device lsi,id=my-scsi -device scsi-disk,bus=my-scsi.0" no longer works. > ### Paul proposes to either drop TYPE.NUM (and require drivers to > provide bus names), or make NUM count separately for each bus type. Likewise. I'm not saying we can't do this, just that we need to consider backward compatibility. [...]
