PCI Hotplug Slot Naming Scheme

[John Rose]

Opinions requested.  The PCI Hotplug module currently uses IBM-style bus
names when naming the PCI Hotplug slots.  These are registered as kobjects,
and represented by sysfs directories.

For a particular new hardware platform, to remain unnamed :), a firmware guy
tells us these names can be up to 48 chars long.  We have been dealing with
10 character slot names up to this point.  Our options moving forward are

1) Continue to use ibm slot names, for which the hotplug directory could
   look like:

   # ls /sys/bus/pci/slots
   ..   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C1  U7879.001.DQD0027-P1-C2
   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C2  U7879.001.DQD0027-P1-C3
   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C3  U7879.001.DQD0027-P1-C4
   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C5  U7879.001.DQD0027-P1-C5
   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C6  U7879.001.DQD0027-P1-C6
   U7311.D11.104CE9A-P1-C7  U9117.570.104F3DC-V1-C0

   These are just 23 chars long, imagine 48.

2) Use linux-style bus names, as in xxxx:xx:xx:x.  This is more consistent
   with other PCI Hotplug implementations, and the names are always 12 chars
   long.

Although it's late in the game to be asking such questions, we'd rather change
things now if necessary than after this functionality ships.  Thoughts?

Thanks-
John


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