linux-kernel - Re: What still uses the block layer?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@...erone.com.au>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:04:01PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:54:22PM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:
>>> do PCI devices reorder their bus numbers spontaniously, or only if you
>>> change the hardware?
>>
>> The only system I've had that reordered PCI bus numbers was when I had a
>> partitionable system and changed the partitioning.  Not quite "change
>> the hardware", but neither was it "spontaneous".  It was certainly
>> unexpected (for me).
>>
>> Greg probably has quite different examples.
>
> Changing the hardware (adding a new PCI device or removing one) are the
> most common times this happens.  But I have seen reports of this
> happening when you upgrade/downgrade BIOS versions, and, in some
> oops-we-messed-up cases, when we changed things in the kernel.

BIOS upgrades qualify as changing hardware (or close to it)

oops-we-messed-up cases of kernel changes don't justify 'best effort' 
nameing, it's a regression that needs to be fixed.

now the other example given of docking a laptop is closer to reasonable 
(and is definantly a reason to have 'best effort' nameing as an option), 
but that's still a relativly special case, and it _is_ definantly 
changeing the hardware

David Lang
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/