On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 12:37 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:48:44PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:44:49AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > It's a simple choice between reverse_scan and supporting PCI hotplug. > > > You can't have both, and we chose the latter. The same choice has been > > > made in virtually every other device driver. > > > > Or you could submit a patch to implement a reverse scanning option in > > the core PCI code.. > > You'd want to specify that on a per-driver basis, though, surely. Or > all your ethernet cards would get reversed too. Oh, but it wouldn't be > enough for sym2 (iterate through card types instead of through pci ids), > so you'd want another option for that. > > In the end it becomes a hideous mess and it's just easier to adapt > userspace. > > Hey, anyone want to implement SIOCSIFNAME for scsi devices? ;-) it's called udev, and it sets device names by UUID already ;-) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
