Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:58:53PM CET, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote: >On 01/10/2017 12:50 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:32:36PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>> Return the physical port number of a DSA created network device using >>> ndo_get_phys_port_name(). >> >> At what level does this need to be unique? > >This needs to be unique to the switch I would say,
Yes. >ndo_get_phys_switch_id would return the physical number of the switch >device in the tree/cluster, so that number plus the port name should be >an unique differentiator that is good enough for e.g: a persistent >naming rule? Yes. > >> >> We can have multiple switches within one switch cluster. p->port will >> be unique within one switch, but can be repeated in a cluster. >> >> We can also have multiple clusters, and again p->port will be re-used. > > >-- >Florian
