Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 16:35:50 EST


On 7/27/07, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 27 July 2007 12:38:56 pm Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 08:21:06 pm Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > That doesn't help with Yinghai's PCI root ordering issue, of course.
> >
> > I could
> > sort the acpi_pci_roots before using it, in acpi_pci_register_driver()
>
> acpi_pci_register_driver() is only used by hotplug. acpi_pci_root_add()
> does the pci_acpi_scan_root(), so sorting in acpi_pci_register_driver()
> won't affect that.

Not sure. will test that later.

>
> Can you give a more detailed example? Maybe that would help me understand
> the problem you're seeing.
>
> And why is udev not sufficient to give the NICs persistent names?

yes. NIC on node1 become the eth0 instead of eth2.

YH
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