On Saturday 2008-05-24 06:25, Jon Masters wrote:

I guess that would also work quite nicely for what I want to do, but the
problem is that this will require either:

*). The kernel decodes the DMI extension directly.
*). We can first inform each device which slot it is in (set the slot).

My intention is to implement whatever seems reasonable, and my reason
for asking is that I am not a networking maintainer, so I want to know
what seems reasonable :)

Why are we even looking at slot numbers? I do not think there is any
guarantee that the order of slots as a human would recognize them on
the board must always correspond to a monotonically increasing linear
function.