On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:12:43PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Actually, how about we introduce a smaller patch that just makes > bfsort the default for all machines with a BIOS date of 2011 or later? > bfsort was what we always intended; it was unintentionally broken for, > what, five years, and the only reason not to revert it was to not break > setups that had come to rely on it. > > So just make it the default for all future systems, no matter what > manufacturer. This approach would hit all systems that install a newly issued BIOS after 2010, which could cause a change in behaviour for such systems. I don't know how to get a "system manufactured" date or "system first powered on" date generically (IIRC these might be exposed in vendor-specific fields on Dell systems). I'm not opposed, but it could result in a change of behavior for still-maintained (as evidenced by newly issued BIOSes) systems. -- 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
