On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:10:15PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > PCI bus already has one. For ISA bus this patch series uses device's
> > ioports to uniquely describe it. For isa-ide, for example, get_dev_path
> > method returns:
> > 01f0-01f7,03f6 for first IDE controller
> > 0170-0177,0376 for second one
>
> Any I/O port used by the device identifies it. I'd say a common
> identifier is the "I/O base", the lowest I/O port used.
So use only first port from the string. More information is better then
less information. You can always drop information you do not need.
--
Gleb.
