On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:34:06PM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

 > Why can't you renumber the busses when something gets hot plugged?
 > Leaving gaps can never work properly, since you can't really know where
 > thing will get inserted (i.e., you may run out of bus numbers locally
 > even in there are free ones globally).

Renumbering all the busses means that you have to somehow notify all
devices which might have a copy of the device's b/d/f tag.

If Microsoft can make it work by leaving gaps, so can we.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>