[PATCH v10 07/10] OF: Introduce helper function for getting PCI domain_nr

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> So as long as the DT tells you the ECAM information for each host
> bridge, that should be sufficient.  The domain number is then just a
> Linux convenience and is not tied to the platform as it is on ia64.

I think this is right for DT systems - the domain is purely internal
to the kernel and userspace, it is used to locate the proper host
bridge driver instance, which contains the proper config accessor (and
register bases, etc).

AFAIK the main reason to have a DT alias to learn the domain number is
to make it stable so things like udev/etc can reliably match on the
PCI location.

This is similar to i2c, etc that use the alias scheme, so IMHO
whatever they do to assign ID's to drivers should be copied for domain
numbers.

Jason