Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2006 10:39:32 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: State of the Linux PCI Subsystem for 2.6.18-rc6 |
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Hi Greg!
> No other new PCI driver API changes are pending that I am aware of. The > PCI sort order change will affect some people's userspace ordering of > network devices, restoring it to the proper 2.4 ordering. It was never > intended that this be broken, and since no one has noticed this for the > past 3 years, it was not broken in a severe way.
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.
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