Re: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:08:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Or, if you really want to be able to get the OF info from the pci device
in sysfs, why not create a symlink in the pci device directory pointing
to your OF path in sysfs?  That would seem like the best option.

thanks,

greg k-h
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