On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 02:33:19AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > <casca...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > For network devices on the same PCI function, dev_id should not be used, > > since its purpose is for IPv6 support on interfaces with the same MAC > > address. > > > > The new dev_port sysfs attribute should be used when it is found. When > > it is not, using dev_id might work. > > I don't see a problem switching this over, but why would we keep using > dev_id if it is not the right thing to use? > > Kay >
Because dev_port has only been introduced into Linux 3.15, and some drivers used dev_id before Linux 3.10. It's not an ideal situation, so I think it's important to keep some compatibility for the time being. Or we could simply drop dev_id, and force everyone to do the right thing and backport dev_port support and fix their drivers. Cascardo. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
