Re: [PATCH 0/1] Use of /sys/bus/pci/devices/…/index for non-SMBIOS platforms

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 03:59:04PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> Hi Narendra, Hi All,
> 
> According to Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci you are responsible
> for the index device attribute that is used by systemd to create network
> interface names.
> 
> Now we would like to reuse this attribute for firmware provided PCI
> device index numbers on the s390 architecture which doesn't have
> SMBIOS/DMI nor ACPI. All code changes are within our architecture
> specific code but I'd like to get some Acks for this reuse. I've sent an
> RFC version of this patch on 15th of March with the subject:
> 
>    s390/pci: expose a PCI device's UID as its index
> 
> but got no response. Would it be okay to re-use this attribute for
> essentially the same purpose but with index numbers provided by
> a different platform mechanism? I think this would be cleaner than
> further proliferation of /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/xyz_index
> attributes and allows re-use of the existing userspace infrastructure.

I'm missing an explanation that this change is safe for systemd and
they don't have some hard-coded assumption about the meaning of existing
index on s390.

Thanks