On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:04:01PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:54:22PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > do PCI devices reorder their bus numbers spontaniously, or only if you > > change the hardware? > > The only system I've had that reordered PCI bus numbers was when I had a > partitionable system and changed the partitioning. Not quite "change > the hardware", but neither was it "spontaneous". It was certainly > unexpected (for me). > > Greg probably has quite different examples. Changing the hardware (adding a new PCI device or removing one) are the most common times this happens. But I have seen reports of this happening when you upgrade/downgrade BIOS versions, and, in some oops-we-messed-up cases, when we changed things in the kernel. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
