Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:14:06 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device |
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Hello!
> I recommend we just delete the pci_bus class. I don't think it serves > any useful purpose. The bridge can be inferred frmo the sysfs hierarchy > (not to mention lspci will tell you). The cpuaffinity file should be > moved from the bus to the device -- it really doesn't make any sense to > talk about which cpu a bus is affine to, only a device.
It doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose other than the affinity now, but I still think that it conceptually belongs there, because it makes sense to have per-bus attributes. For example, in the future we could show data width and signalling speed.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." -- Alan Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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