On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:41:23 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:32:53 am Sébastien Dugué wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:16:44 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The _DDN is a "DOS device name", and the _UID is a "logical device ID > > > that does not change across reboots." Both are optional, and PNPACPI > > > ignores them. But maybe we could change PNPACPI to sort by them if > > > they are present. I'll think about this a bit. > > > > That would be nice, but I wish you good luck with all those > > crappy BIOSes out there. > > Yeah, it's an ugly world we live in. Would you be able to try the > attached patch just for testing? It should sort devices with the > same _HID by their _UID. It doesn't have any effect on my systems, > because my devices are already ordered by _UID by default. But I > think it should switch your COM1/COM2 ports back to the order you > expect. > Works well, thanks Bjorn. Sébastien. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
