Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> writes: > 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.
I'd prefer canonical bus addresses to be terse. It's not the place to give additional information.
