Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751364AbWIODxR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:53:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751378AbWIODxR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:53:17 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]:38631 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364AbWIODxQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:53:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o377+nf7jkZAYk3woTsYMdb5L3HTjTvGRaEf2AxRE38lg+06/HTOiIGp7RrA5a4k1404eaiP8ALEm4UNwMHZVTuV63sU2645Mc9bhAXi4nqz5WaSDl80NBDSJL0wjtZgpKpM3YcY6A4e85KhezcMdRo7wiCAfNZN18AHlqWnQcQ= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:53:16 -0700 From: "Dan Carpenter" To: "Matt Domsch" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc5] PCI: sort device lists breadth-first Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, "Greg KH" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, error27@gmail.com, ppokorny@penguincomputing.com In-Reply-To: <20060908031422.GA4549@lists.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060908031422.GA4549@lists.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 29 On 9/7/06, Matt Domsch wrote: > Problem: > Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6 > kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from > expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers > have similar behavior. > On RHEL3 the 32bit and 64bit versions order the NICs differently. 64bit RHEL3 orders it the same as 2.6. I've got a lot of systems where the NIC LEDs are labelled. The labels are correct for 2.6 but not for 2.4 32 bit. I'm suspect the labels were designed for Windows originally. My boss pointed out that this patch. It was supposed to make PCI bus ordering match 2.4. http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commitdiff;h=ffdd6e8f870ca6dd0d9b9169b8c2e0fdbae99549 It's still there, why did it stop working? Couldn't we just use the labelling from the DMI data to order the NICs? regards, dan carpenter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/