idpf registers multiple netdevs (virtual ports) for one PCI function,
but it does not provide a way for userspace to distinguish them with
sysfs attributes. Per Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net, it is
a bug not to set dev_port for independent ports on the same PCI bus,
device and function.
Without dev_port set, systemd-udevd's default naming policy attempts
to assign the same name ("ens2f0") to all four idpf netdevs on my test
system and obviously fails, leaving three of them with the initial
eth<N> name.
With this patch, systemd-udevd is able to assign unique names to the
netdevs (e.g. "ens2f0", "ens2f0d1", "ens2f0d2", "ens2f0d3").
The Intel-provided out-of-tree idpf driver already sets dev_port. In
this patch I chose to do it in the same place in the idpf_cfg_netdev
function.
Fixes: 0fe45467a104 ("idpf: add create vport and netdev configuration")
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
index 5fea2fd957eb..58179bd733ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c
@@ -783,6 +783,8 @@ static int idpf_cfg_netdev(struct idpf_vport *vport)
/* setup watchdog timeout value to be 5 second */
netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
+ netdev->dev_port = idx;
+
/* configure default MTU size */
netdev->min_mtu = ETH_MIN_MTU;
netdev->max_mtu = vport->max_mtu;
--
2.41.0
