PCI Hotplug Slot Naming Scheme

[linas at austin.ibm.com]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:42:26AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:31:38AM -0600, John Rose wrote:
> >
> >    # 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.
>
> Ick, ick, ick.  I say no.  Those names mean nothing to anyone familiar
> with Linux.

Yes, but they do mean something to the sysadmin who has to figure out
the physical location of some device.  In particular, the HMC does not
use the Linux naming scheme.   There's need for both until more sophisticated
management tools can be developed.

--linas


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