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Linux 6.18 To Make It Easier Parsing PCI Device Serial Numbers


A patch queued into the PCI subsystem's 'next' branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window will uniformally expose the PCI device serial number of devices via sysfs for easy programmatic parsing.

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