From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758744AbYEPRaQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 13:30:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751613AbYEPRaE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 13:30:04 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-115.bluehost.com ([69.89.24.5]:58803 "HELO outbound-mail-115.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750832AbYEPRaD (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 13:30:03 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: tcamuso@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:29:55 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, "Schoeller, Patrick (Linux - Houston, TX)" References: <482C838E.3030203@redhat.com> <20080515220215.76eea915@core> <482CB7D7.30008@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <482CB7D7.30008@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805161029.55649.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Identified-User: {642:box128.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.27.49 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} DomainKey-Status: no signature Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:23 pm Tony Camuso wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > This is going to make everyone with those boxes who upgrades suddenely > > get their devices re-ordered and renamed when the probe order changes. > > That seems extremely inappropriate. > > > > Alan > > HP maintains that more of our customers, especially new customers, > will be adversely affected by NOT implementing this patch for the > following reasons. > > 1. HP issued a Customer Advisory for existing customers to use "pci=bfsort" > in the boot command for these systems. Customers using pci=bfsort in > their boot scripts will be unaffected by this patch. > > 2. Customers using only the two embedded NI devices will be unaffected. > > 3. Because of the use of labels for disk devices, they are unaffected. > > 4. New customers who must add pci=bfsort to their boot scripts have > expressed dissatisfaction. > > The only time this patch would induce any confusion for an existing > customer is upon the convergence of the following situations. > > 1. The user has not followed the instructions in the release notes > for the DL360 and DL380, > > AND > > 2. The user has added NI cards to the option slots, > > AND > > 3. The user upgrades his kernel. Ok, I'll put it in linux-next for now then. It would be good to hear some feedback from users about it though... Thanks, Jesse