Re: [Bug ??] 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 - PCI ethernet board does not seem to work

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:21:57PM +0200, Pierre Peiffer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My Ethernet board (Intel(R) PRO/1000) "doesn't seems" to work any more
> with this kernel, but all is ok with kernel 2.6.18-rc6-mm1.
> 
> A bisection search show this patch:
> gregkh-pci-pci-sort-device-lists-breadth-first.patch
> as being the faulty one...
> 
> But after reading the content of this patch, I understood that the order
> of the ethernet boards had changed. In fact,  I have four ethernet
> boards and now, my eth0 does not point on the same card...
> So all is now ok by changing my cable to the right board.
> 
> But is this really the expected behavior ?

Yes.  You should use a persistent name for your network devices to
prevent this from happening.

That being said, I think we need to reverse the order of this patch,
keeping the current scheme as default, and allowing it to be overridden
on the command line for those few machines where it matters to be
compatible with the old, 2.4 ordering scheme.

Matt, care to rework the patch in this manner?

thanks,

greg k-h