Re: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> This patch adds a "devspec" property to all PCI entries in sysfs
> that provides the full "Open Firmware" path to each device on
> PPC and PPC64 platforms that have Open Firmware support.

Wouldn't it make more sense to go the other way? Ie have the PCI devices 
be pointed to from the OF paths?

I'd prefer to avoid having OF-specific files in a PCI directory. That just 
leads to inherently unportable user mode stuff. In contrast, having the OF 
directory entry that points to the hardware (PCI) entry makes perfect 
sense.

umm?

		Linus
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