Re: [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-alpha1

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 12:37:34 EST


On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:28:39AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> The list of PCI devices should be ordered in two buckets: ROMBs first,
> then add in cards; secondarily, oldest to newest. We do this with
> aacraid today.

In 2.4, you can do what you like. The list of PCI devices is in PCI
bus number order, and that's the order you get when you use the hotplug
interfaces. Yes, this is a painful customer-visible change, but if
they use scsi discs, they must already be used to devices changing name
at random.

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