From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Jim Westfall <jwestfall@surrealistic.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mchan@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: bnx2 probe order change from 2.6.21 -> 2.6.24
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:51:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416155101.GA26072@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080410184455.GL84358@surrealistic.net>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:44:55AM -0700, Jim Westfall wrote:
> Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> wrote [04.10.08]:
> > 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.
>
> We ran into this issue as well when going from 2.6.20 to 2.6.23 on dell
> 1950/2950s.
>
> If you check your dmesg output from your older kernel you should see
>
> PCI: Dell PowerEdge 1950 detected, enabling pci=bfsort.
>
> With the newer kernel the code path that triggers the above is removed if
> you have ACPI enabled in the kernel.
Thanks. This was caused by commit 08f1c192c3c32797068bfe97738babb3295bbf42
(x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of ->sysdata).
I've sent something along to the kernel list.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 15:51 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 [this message]
2008-04-10 18:45 ` Michael Chan
2008-04-10 17:54 ` Phil Oester
2008-04-10 19:15 ` Michael Chan
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