Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:36:20 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] pci_name() |
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:35:25AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 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.
That sounds reasonable. But do we really need to do this for 2.6?
Just trying to keep things sane...
thanks,
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