Re: [RFC] pci_name()

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:09:32 +1000


> I'd kind of like to get rid of pci_dev->slot_name. It's redundant with
> pci_dev->dev.bus_id, but that's one hell of a search and replace job.
> So let me propose pci_name(pci_dev) as a replacement. That has the
> benefit of being shorter than either of the others and lets us do fun
> & interesting things later (maybe construct it on the fly for systems
> that want to save 20 bytes per device?). We can transition it in over
> 2.5/2.6/2.7 and kill pci_dev->slot_name for 2.8.
>
> Oh, and without killing slot_name immediately, we can save 4 bytes on
> 32-bit platforms by turning it into a pointer to the dev.bus_id.

Works for me, I wanted to hijack pci_dev->slot_name (or the equivalent) so
we print both domain:bus:devfn as well as the system location on ppc64.
The system location makes it easier to work out which slot the card is in.

I dont necessarily need pci_name() since I could do what I want if
pci_dev->slot_name becomes a pointer.

Anton
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