[wellylug] PCI card slot locations

andrej at paradise.net.nz andrej at paradise.net.nz
Fri Jan 19 14:18:01 NZDT 2007


Quoting Phillip Hutchings <sitharus at sitharus.com>:


> True, but the modules should be probing for their devices anyway, so
> that wouldn't matter unless arguments were passed to override
> autodetection.
Well .. in the past I've seen the odd occasion where certain 
cards didn't like sharing their IRQs, namely some RAID controllers.

If, in a swap of hardware, that one was alotted to the same
IRQ as e.g. a graphics card, there was trouble.  Regardless
of module params.




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