Re: PCI probe, please CC hamilton@sedsystems.ca

[Kendrick Hamilton]

Greg,
   We don't have a hardware address to use. What I am looking for is a 
way to tie it to the slot number. Is there any way of getting the slot 
number?
Kendrick

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Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:58:39PM -0600, Kendrick Hamilton wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >   we are using the Linux 2.2.16 kernel (some of the code we purchased 
> > does not work with 2.4.x kernels and we would have to do a lot of 
> > regression testing to upgrade) on an IBM e-server. We wrote a module for 
> > a modulator card we are using. The code uses pci_find_device to find the 
> > modulator cards. The problem we are having is that it finds the cards in 
> > different orders. One time hss0 is the card in slot 4 and hss1 is the 
> > card in slot5. The next time we power up the computer, hss0 is the card 
> > in slot5 and hss1 is the card in slot 4.
> >   The IBM e-server has about 5 PCI bridges.
> >   Do you have any suggestion as to how I might be able to ensure the 
> > cards are always detected in the same order? Our system requires that 
> > they always be in the same order.
> >    
>
> Are the pci device ids different across different boots?  If not, is
> there any way you can tie a specific device to a specific interface
> (unique hardware addresses, mac addresses, etc.)?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>  

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