RE: PCI device order problem

[Leech, Christopher]

I've heard some grumbling about this with specific motherboards and 82546
LOMs. While I understand what's happening, and that using nameif to manage
this is the correct answer, I am a bit surprised that function 1 would be
placed on the global PCI device list before function 0 for a multi-function
device.

-- Chris Leech

> >>Without answering your specific question, but addressing $subject, 
> >>what
> >>problem is caused by the PCI device order you see?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It is different from the hardware documentation. The hardware manual 
> >says it has 2 NICs, NIC 1 (03:07.0) and NIC2 (03:07.1), which makes 
> >senses to me. NIC 1 is a special one which supports IPMI over LAN. 
> >Since we only use one NIC now, we'd like to use NIC 1 and 
> call it eth0.
> >  
> >
> 
> Well, overall, depending on ordering is error-prone (as you see).  I 
> would suggest migrating to a less-fragile scheme.  nameif and ethtool 
> together should get you exactly the device you need...  
> (though I wonder 
> why simply using eth1 is so awful, if this situation is constant...)
> 
>     Jeff