Re: New kernel/resource.c

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:15:41 +0200


Hi!

> So instead of using confusing names like "peanut" or "pci_or_isa_or_
> pcmcia_or_who_the_hell_cares_what_electrical_bus_is_outside_the_cpu_
> as_we_cannot_see_it_anyway" , I'm just calling it "PCI". Fair enough? It's
> 99% of the interesting market these days.

Call it "rootbus". I think that it is unambiguous still much nicer
than pci_or_isa_or.... :-). It _is_ rootbus after all. In modern pc,
how are pci + agp connected to CPU. I think it is called "rootbus".

Pavel
PS: I really see rootbus is much better name than PCI. I don't think
I'm stickler but you confused me pretty badly.

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