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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:36:14 -0700
To: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
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At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>  > Jeff Garzik's ethtool
>  > extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from
>>  that I can write a userland mapping function to the physical
>>  location.
>
>I don't see how PCI bus/dev/fcn lets you do that.

I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for all 
by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI bus/dev/fcn and 
physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the mapping between 
eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise available (outside 
the kernel).
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.