Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

From: Martin Mares
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 03:14:59 EST


Hello!

> I recommend we just delete the pci_bus class. I don't think it serves
> any useful purpose. The bridge can be inferred frmo the sysfs hierarchy
> (not to mention lspci will tell you). The cpuaffinity file should be
> moved from the bus to the device -- it really doesn't make any sense to
> talk about which cpu a bus is affine to, only a device.

It doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose other than the affinity now,
but I still think that it conceptually belongs there, because it makes
sense to have per-bus attributes. For example, in the future we could
show data width and signalling speed.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." -- Alan Kay
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