Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 3c59x and resume | From | Joachim Breuer <> | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:31:28 +0100 |
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Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:
> le lun 25-03-2002 à 12:34, Joachim Breuer a écrit : >> Being able to redetect a pulled card put in a different slot as a >> "known" one giving it the same eth<i> (and associated WOL etc. config) >> as before would of course be nice, but I can't see how this can be >> cleanly done over reboots. > > Some may say that being able to give the same eth<i> to the same bus > position, even after swapping the card for a new one, is more important > - think of production machines which can't afford being off-service for > too long. You just shutdown, swap the cards, poweron and you go. No > reconfig, that's how it should run.
Reading it again I wasn't all too clear in that last posting - I meant it to show two alternatives (eth<i> stays with bus vs. eth<i> stays with card). Each with its own advantages and disadvantages; I don't have a fixed preference, but a slight leaning towards fixed bus-position based numbers (spanning different drivers, if at all possible). That would allow Xavier's scenario even with a different type of replacement card.
(Yes of course you'd have to reconfig to swap a PCI card for an ISA one but let's not go there, OK?)
So long, Joe
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