Ethernet probe order

Phil Oester kernel at linuxace.com
Thu Sep 8 15:54:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:27:31AM -0500, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> > Which is neither alphabetically or PCI bus order.  Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> Just observing, but it's reverse PCI bus order.  No idea why though.

Which also defies logic and the code.  From kudzu.c:

        for (bus=1;buses[bus].string;bus++) {

where the ++ would seem to indicate ascending order.

Then further down:

        /* We need to sort the network devices by module name. Fun. */

So: ???

Phil




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