Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:11:34 +0000 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc5] PCI: sort device lists breadth-first |
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Hi!
> I wanted to note what Martin Mares just raised in the > thread "State of the Linux PCI Subsystem for 2.6.18-rc6": > > >Changing the device order in the middle of the 2.6 > >cycle doesn't sound > >like a sane idea to me. Many people have changed their > >systems' configuration > >to adapt to the 2.6 ordering and this patch would break > >their setups. > >I have seen many such examples in my vicinity. > > > >I believe that not breaking existing 2.6 setups is much > >more important > >than keeping compatibility with 2.4 kernels, especially > >when the problem > >is discovered after more than 2 years after release of > >the first 2.6. > > > I'm not siding with either Martin or Matt explicitly, > just noting that there are good arguments for both sides.
I agree with martin here. 'Lets break all the machines where people are currently using 2.6.x, for benefit of people currently running 2.4.x' is *very* bad idea. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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