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.
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