On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:53:41PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:10:15PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >> Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> writes: > >> > >> > PCI bus already has one. For ISA bus this patch series uses device's > >> > ioports to uniquely describe it. For isa-ide, for example, get_dev_path > >> > method returns: > >> > 01f0-01f7,03f6 for first IDE controller > >> > 0170-0177,0376 for second one > >> > >> Any I/O port used by the device identifies it. I'd say a common > >> identifier is the "I/O base", the lowest I/O port used. > > So use only first port from the string. More information is better then > > less information. You can always drop information you do not need. > > I'd prefer canonical bus addresses to be terse. It's not the place to > give additional information.
I'd prefer them to give full info but not more. I don't see why you point is more valid then mine. -- Gleb.