On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:55:26AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Eli Cohen <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:45:23 +0300 > > > What's wrong with using the existing dev_id sysfs file name and saying > that it means the port number of the card? > > Nobody, and I really mean nobody, uses this thing any more. > > It used to be a way for devices like the qeth driver to get it's > IPV6 EUI48 value set properly for local IPV6 addresses assigned > to the device, but that got fixed in a different way. > > So we can use this value however we wish now, and it defaults to zero > for every single device now, and is propagated across VLAN devices, > which is perfect.
OK. So if I understand you correctly, you think that I should not bother to set a default value of 1. Each driver that cares about the value of this field, will set it however they want. -- 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
