netdev - Re: Where to submit this?

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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:40:00 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Ron Murray <rjmx@...x.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where to submit this?

On 3/21/19 5:18 PM, Ron Murray wrote:
> I have an ASRock 970A-G/3.1 motherboard, which, with current Linux
> kernels, occasionally "finds" an extra PCI device on the initial scan. I
> wouldn't mind, but it finds it early in the piece, and that changes the
> PCI allocation of my Ethernet board from 02:06.0 to 03:06.0, and, with
> systemd, Linux comes up with no network connection. A reboot fixes it,
> mostly.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with how this part of the kernel works. Who should
> I submit a bug report to?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
>  .....Ron

Hi,

a.  There are ways to make & keep stable network interface names (search
for "stable network interface names in linux") regardless of where the
network interfaces are "found."

b.  The problem that you describe sounds more like a PCI issue.
You could ask about it on the linux-pci@...r.kernel.org mailing list.

-- 
~Randy