Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI
function. This initializes the `dev_port' sysfs field of those
network interfaces with their port number.
The use of `dev_id' was considered correct until Linux 3.15,
when another field, `dev_port', was defined for this particular
purpose and `dev_id' was reserved for distinguishing stacked ifaces
(e.g: VLANs) with the same hardware address as their parent device.
Similar fixes to net/mlx4_en and many other drivers, which started
exporting this information through `dev_id' before 3.15, were accepted
into the kernel 4 years ago.
See 76a066f2a2a0268b565459c417b59724b5a3197b, commit message:
`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs'.
Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <a...@cs.msu.ru>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index e3d28f9ad9c0..fcd69273de91 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -1881,6 +1881,7 @@ static int ipoib_parent_init(struct net_device *ndev)
SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, priv->ca->dev.parent);
priv->dev->dev_id = priv->port - 1;
+ priv->dev->dev_port = priv->port - 1;
return 0;
}
--
2.18.0
