On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:02:45PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > Thinking about this a bit, will it be possible to provide a udev > rulethat can dictate to the IB core what name / suffix digit to > assign for a device with certain BDF?
FWIW, I reflected on this once (I belive it was for the netlink discussion).. Allowing for a device to be renamed creates a serious problem for RDMA since there isn't a stable 'if-index' like way for software to refer to it. The udev rules all rely on a means to rename the device once the kernel has created it. For this reason, all the software I've built uses the port GID to ID the resource for bind/etc and strongly discourages use of the RDMA device name. The ipoib devices should already be renamable via udev rules, though has anyone checked that udev doesn't have a problem with the long 'MAC'? Jason -- 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
