Predict/force PCI slot id given by the kernel to NICs

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 20 May 2014 15:55:09 -0500, Jaime Arrocha said:

> I am working on a Proliant server model which have 6 physical pci slots.
> They are going to be used for NICs with either 2 or 4 interfaces and
> installed in an arbitrarily order in the slots. By this I mean that the a
> certain box will only have a card/s on only certain slots.
>
> I need to write a program to its able to predict/read what bus id (slot id)
> the kernel gives to each interface for every card. The program should be
> able to relate the bus id to the slot where it is physically installed at.

Have whatever installer program (anaconda for RH-based, etc) call an exit
script that does an 'lspci | grep your_nic_card_here'? and scribble in
the /etc/udev/rules.d file?

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