On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:17:23PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > If a user needs to provide configuration information specific to a > particular PCI board, how does one have the user identify the board? It's a hard thing to do :( > When my driver's probe() function is called, it appears that > pdev->slot is null, so that's not useful. Yes, not all BIOSes support that. > Should I use pci_name(pdev) as the identifier for the user to specify > when configuring a particular board? You can, but how are you "configuring a particular board"? > Is pci_name(pdev) associated with a phisical slot guaranteed to be > unchaged after a reboot? After other PCI cards are added/removed? It can randomly change every boot, the PCI addressing scheme is not deterministic, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
