On Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:23 pm Tony Camuso wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > This is going to make everyone with those boxes who upgrades suddenely > > get their devices re-ordered and renamed when the probe order changes. > > That seems extremely inappropriate. > > > > Alan > > HP maintains that more of our customers, especially new customers, > will be adversely affected by NOT implementing this patch for the > following reasons. > > 1. HP issued a Customer Advisory for existing customers to use "pci=bfsort" > in the boot command for these systems. Customers using pci=bfsort in > their boot scripts will be unaffected by this patch. > > 2. Customers using only the two embedded NI devices will be unaffected. > > 3. Because of the use of labels for disk devices, they are unaffected. > > 4. New customers who must add pci=bfsort to their boot scripts have > expressed dissatisfaction. > > The only time this patch would induce any confusion for an existing > customer is upon the convergence of the following situations. > > 1. The user has not followed the instructions in the release notes > for the DL360 and DL380, > > AND > > 2. The user has added NI cards to the option slots, > > AND > > 3. The user upgrades his kernel. Ok, I'll put it in linux-next for now then. It would be good to hear some feedback from users about it though... Thanks, Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
