From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bnx2 probe order change from 2.6.21 -> 2.6.24
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:54:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410175455.GA16754@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207853118.5557.6.camel@dell>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45:16AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 08:44 -0700, Phil Oester wrote:
> > I recently upgraded a Dell Poweredge 1950 from 2.6.21 to 2.6.24, and
> > found
> > that the onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II nics got probed in the reverse
> > order.
>
> I know there is a difference in PCI probing order between 2.4 and 2.6
> kernels on x86 machines, but I'm not aware of changes in these 2 recent
> 2.6 kernels you mentioned above. Various kernel parameters such as
> pci=nosort, pci=bfsort, pci=nobfsort can affect the order. Are you
> using any of these?
No - nothing like that. And the e1000 devices in the box (eth0 - 7) are probing
in the same order, which (perhaps incorrectly) leads me to believe it's not
PCI related, but specific to bnx2.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 15:44 bnx2 probe order change from 2.6.21 -> 2.6.24 Phil Oester
2008-04-10 18:44 ` Jim Westfall
2008-04-16 15:51 ` Phil Oester
2008-04-10 18:45 ` Michael Chan
2008-04-10 17:54 ` Phil Oester [this message]
2008-04-10 19:15 ` Michael Chan
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