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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:58:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add dev_to_node()

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, David Miller wrote:

> Yes, that's possible, because the idea is that the arch specific
> bus layer code would initialize the node value.  Therefore, there
> would be no need for things like pcibus_to_node() any longer.

Then lets rename pcibus_to_node to dev_to_node() throughout the kernel. 
Provide a -1 default. Then other device layers that are not based on pci 
will also be able to exploit NUMA locality.
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