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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:45:23 +0300 From: Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: eli@...lanox.co.il, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rdreier@...co.com, yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Save the port number a netdevice uses On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 01:39:26AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il> > Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:17:02 +0300 > > > Today, there are no means to know which port of a hardware device a netdev > > interface uses. This patch adds a new field to struct net_device that is used > > to store this value. The network driver should use the SET_NETDEV_PORT_NUM() > > macro to set the port number for the device it manages. For drivers that do not > > set a value, a default value of 1 is set at alloc_netdev_mq(). > > This patch also makes use of this feature in the mlx4_en driver. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il> > > We have an existing dev_id, use it. Do you think we should use dev_id also for the sysfs file name so every driver can choose to interpret this field as it chooses to, or should I keep the sysfs file name as "port_number"? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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