pci-OF-bus-map deprecation
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2006-05-19 05:24:39
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2006-05-19 05:24:39
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For 32 bits machines with Open Firmware, we used to create a pci-OF-bus-map property in the device-tree that provided a mapping between linux and Open Firmware PCI bus numbers (since on some platforms like PowerMac, we still renumber PCI busses). This property is no longer necessary as - Nowadays, we have sysfs and the PCI devices in there do have a full Open Firmware device path exposed as a "devspec" file in their sysfs directories - I don't think anybody ever used that property in userland :) This mail is mostly to make sure of the later. I intend to get rid of it in 2.6.18 (that's early, but as I said, I think nobody uses it anyway. I intended to use it in some X stuff I never ended up actually implementing...) It only concerns 32 bits ppc machines with OF, and only the ones that renumber busses, which means basically only PowerMacs. Ben.