[Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Slot Naming Scheme

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:43:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:04:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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" ).
>
> Why not name the slot this in the first place?

Ugh, read the whole thread about this to see why that's not a good idea.

greg k-h

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