On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:39:26AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Eli Cohen <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:17:02 +0300 > > > Today, there are no means to know which port of a hardware device a netdev > > interface uses. This patch adds a new field to struct net_device that is > > used > > to store this value. The network driver should use the SET_NETDEV_PORT_NUM() > > macro to set the port number for the device it manages. For drivers that do > > not > > set a value, a default value of 1 is set at alloc_netdev_mq(). > > This patch also makes use of this feature in the mlx4_en driver. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <[email protected]> > > We have an existing dev_id, use it.
Do you think we should use dev_id also for the sysfs file name so every driver can choose to interpret this field as it chooses to, or should I keep the sysfs file name as "port_number"? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
