Jason R Thorpe wrote:

>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.
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>If Microsoft can make it work by leaving gaps, so can we.
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Well, that will be for some definition of "works".  It's not the Right Way,
but it might work well enough most of the time.

    -- Lennart