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Hi,

> I disagree. There is no fundamental reason that either ordering is more
> "correct" for network cards. Here we have historical precedent to deal with,
> but that's all. It is not completely outrageous to change the ordering if
> sufficient warning is given.

I think we should preserve the same ordering as we had in 2.0 and solve
this finally in 2.3 by introducing a resource manager and devfs.

> With BusLogic SCSI and Mylex DAC960 boards that have their own BIOS there is a
> more fundamental issue: the BIOS itself iterates using the PCI BIOS function in
> order to determine the order of board recognition (and hence which device to
> boot from), and this information *must* be available to the driver.

I still don't understand why is ordering in BusLogic driver more important
than ordering anywhere else. Is there any reason for handling the bootup
SCSI controller different than the rest?

> Hence my proposal: The kernel finds the devices directly using direct access
> which avoids PCI BIOS problems, and the PCI BIOS pcibios_find_device function
> is only used when requested by a driver, but the information from the direct
> probe is returned. That is the minimum possible use of the PCI BIOS, is it
> not?

I definitely think the same would be needed for other drivers, so it can be
simply solving by preserving BIOS ordering whenever BIOS is enabled.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam."

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