PCI Hotplug Slot Naming Scheme

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Apr 8 03:04:42 EST 2004


On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:19:08PM -0500, Linda Xie wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Since php core exepects an u32 address value from a php driver and it
> converts the value
> into "%04x:%02x:%02x" string,  we can't use "address" attribute file to
> store the physical
> location of a slot (in our case it is a  long string like
> "U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C2" ).
>
> I'd like to know if we can add a new attribute file called
> "phy_location" or "location" for storing
> physical location (a regular ASCII string) of a slot.

Sure, I don't have a problem with that.

thanks,

greg k-h

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