On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 06:16:22PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It appears that 'unknown slot' is treated as a specific slot and all > devices with an unknown slot are given unique indices. Perhaps this > doesn't matter in the end, since no name is generated when the slot is > unknown. Yes on all counts. > However, the 2 NIC ports do have their own indices (specified with the > dev_id attribute) and it should be possible to distinguish slots by > PCI/PCIe topology even though the name given won't correspond to any > markings on the motherboard. Tell me more about the dev_id attribute. I'm happy to use it, but I don't understand the rules around populating it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
