On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 at 21:18, Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> wrote: > 07/04/2026 13:52, David Marchand: > > Each bus reimplements some similar devargs lookup code. > > > > The differences are in how some bus (PCI, VMBUS etc...) normalizes the > > device names. We can't use the .parse existing handler from outside the > > bus code itself, as the size of the bus specific device location address > > is unknown. > > Introduce a bus specific helper to compare two device names and > > hide this ugly detail. > > I agree with introducing a new bus helper. > > [...] > > + /* The name in the devargs is usually prefixed with <bus>: */ > > Is it usually prefixed or always prefixed?
"usually", for legacy reasons (like PCI address are understood as is, or with pci: prefix). -- David Marchand
