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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:33:34 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] PCI: Allow specifying devices using a base bus and
path of devfns
On 06/22/2018 01:50 PM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
>
> On 22/06/18 02:01 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Thus, we add an option to specify devices in the following format:
>>>
>>> [<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[/<slot>.<func>]*
>>
>> Please explain the trailing '*'. I looked thru the code and it doesn't
>> seem to look for it or care.
>
> This was Willy's suggestion and I liked it. It's similar to regular
> expression syntax: the '*' indicating you may have any number of the
> expression repeated in the square brackets.
Oh, OK. I can do that syntax, I just didn't know that this was
using that notation.
Hopefully admins can read it that way.
--
~Randy
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