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Hi John, thank you for the inputs.  It was set to  -1 to differentiate between driver setting it to zero and the default value zero.

The point I was trying to make here is setting it to a single
digit 0, 1, or -1 doesn't really help in a virtualized environment
where you may not have access to the PCI topology, serial #s, etc.
You need a system-wide unique id.

Anyways looks like your on the right track.

.John