From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:16:40 -0300
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 05:23:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 09:48:08 -0300
>>
>> > Commit 3f85944fe207d0225ef21a2c0951d4946fc9a95d ("net: Add sysfs file
>> > for port number") introduce dev_port to network devices. cxgb4 adapters
>> > have multiple ports on the same PCI function, and used dev_id to
>> > identify those ports. That use was removed by commit
>> > 8c367fcbe6549195d2eb11e62bea233f811aad41 ("cxgb4: Do not set
>> > net_device::dev_id to VI index"), since dev_id should be used only when
>> > devices share the same MAC address.
>> >
>> > Using dev_port for cxgb4 allows different ports on the same PCI function
>> > to be identified.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> You've made exactly zero effort to explain why the IPV6 issue carefully
>> explained in commit 8c367fcbe6549195d2eb11e62bea233f811aad41 no longer
>> applies.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, it absolutely does, and therefore this change
>> here should not be made.
>>
>> I'm not applying this patch, sorry.
>>
>
> I have set dev_port, not dev_id. This is not a revert of commit
> 8c367fcbe6549195d2eb11e62bea233f811aad41.
>
> $ git grep dev_port net/ipv6/
> $
>
> I believe dev_port was introduced exactly to solve the problem dev_id
> was incorrectly being used for.
Aha, that makes much more sense. Thanks for explaining.
Applied, thanks.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
