On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:23:06AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:52:00 +0300 > Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Today, there are no means to know which port of a hardware device a netdev > > interface uses. struct net_device conatins a field, dev_id, that can be used > > for that. This patch adds a new macro, SET_NETDEV_DEV_ID(), to provide a > > standard way to set the value of this field. > > Also also make use of this feature in the mlx4_en driver to set the port > > number; port numbers are zero based. > > Why is a macro wrapper needed? >
I guess for the same reason we use SET_NETDEV_DEV - to provide a consistent interface for setting this value... -- 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
