netdev - Re: [PATCH] ehea: dynamic add / remove port

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Message-Id: <200702210838.24515.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:38:24 +0100
From:	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
To:	John Rose <johnrose@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc:	Thomas Klein <osstklei@...ibm.com>, stefan.roscher@...ibm.com,
	Christoph Raisch <RAISCH@...ibm.com>,
	Marcus Eder <MEDER@...ibm.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: dynamic add / remove port

Hi,

> This looks great!  Two questions.  I would assume that the of_device
> results in a "devspec" file in the sysfs directory for the port?  Also,

yes, that is true. There is a devspec file containing the ofdt path in the
port directory.

> is there a way to correlate a logical port to an ethernet interface
> (eth0, etc)?

This is also included. Each logical port has a symbolic link to ethX, done
with the SET_NETDEV_DEV macro.

Regards,
Jan-Bernd


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