From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Oester Subject: Re: bnx2 probe order change from 2.6.21 -> 2.6.24 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:54:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20080410175455.GA16754@linuxace.com> References: <20080410154401.GA14486@linuxace.com> <1207853118.5557.6.camel@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev To: Michael Chan Return-path: Received: from adsl-67-120-171-161.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([67.120.171.161]:60445 "HELO linuxace.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756992AbYDJRyz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:54:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1207853118.5557.6.camel@dell> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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