Kay Sievers (kay@xxxxxxxx) said: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > I'd like to see kernel driver work to be sure every multi-port driver > >> > with the same PCI b/d/b/f sets dev_id. That isn't necessarily true > >> > today, which makes it hard to trust. biosdevname needs this too, > >> > until such a time as it's dead. > > >> Do we have a list of these, or is it a matter of doing a driver audit? > >> CC'ing gospo. > > > Right now almost no drivers actually set dev_id. In fact mlx4_en, > > cxgb4, and sfc seem to be the only ones right now. If we feel like this > > a requirement there will be work on the kernel side to add this. > > This only matters if there are multiple devices created by a driver > for one and the same pci device. Like when we have only one entry in > lspci, but multiple interfaces of the same type having this one device > as a parent. > > Is this really common? I would expect this is a very rare exception. It definitely happens with some drivers, because I remember back in the ancient ancient kudzu days having to hack in a fix for this. The guilty driver in that initial case was Chelsio cxgb3, so it apparently would need fixed per above. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
