Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:11:13 +0200 (SAT) | | From | Mike Kilburn <> | | Subject | Re: Problem with 2.0.24 SCSI change |
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> different ways it can be done, and none of them are the RightWay(tm). You can > do it by adapter type, by card position on the bus (where known) or by > position in IO space, and none of the ways are very good. They all fail > sometimes (moving the card around or just switching cards), but the kind > of failure you see in 2.0.24 is just plain stupid (when it changes just > because the kernel looks in a different order).
We have a similar type problem with multiple ethernet cards. It seems to me what makes the most sense is to be able relate the slot to the kernel device in a predictable way. Is this possible with PCI? When I enable auto detect for 4 ethernet cards I want to look at the back of the machine and know which is eth0,eth1,eth2,eth3.
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