It really isn't needed, and I understand why Linus didn't like the
idea either. Because you can encode the bus etc. info into the
resource addresses themselves.
On sparc64 we just so happen to stick raw physical addresses into the
resources, but that is just one way of implementing it.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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