On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > This patch enables pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems. > Please consider for inclusion if acceptable. > > From: Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargrave@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH] Enable pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems You may be asking "why is this necessary with the biosdevname work going on?". Short story is, yes, biosdevname continues to be the medium-term strategy, and we are addressing as much as we can in that, getting into all the distributions future releases, adding it in the distro installer environments. However, biosdevname adoption has been slow (I started writing it 5 years ago), and there's a good chance it won't be picked up by all older distribution releases in Service Packs, Updates, or the like. By continuing to use the pci=bfsort workaround, we can more likely get this small patch into older distribution update relesaes where we are already doing hardware enablement, as it can only affect future Dell servers, no impact to existing systems or installations. It also gives flexibility to current kernels and distribution releases on when they pick up biosdevname. The two (pci=bfsort and biosdevname) do not conflict in any way. So, I encourage adoption of this small kernel patch, and then encourage distros to pick up biosdevname also. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- 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
