* Gary Hade <garyhade@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:21:00PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > > Create convenience symlinks in sysfs, linking slots to > > devices and functions, and vice versa. These links make it > > easier for users to figure out which devices actually live in > > what slots. > > This looks it would be quite useful but the symlinks are not > adjusted during hot-add and hot-remove operations (e.g. stale > symlinks persist after hot-remove and new symlinks are not > created in response to hot-add) so it could confuse more than > help on systems with PCI hotplug support. Hi Gary, Yes, you're right. Willy's original version of the patch had symmetric functions in pci_release_dev/pci_scan_device, which I didn't include because I didn't understand why we needed that code. Now I understand. :) Thanks for pointing it out. I'll work on this for v2. /ac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
