netdev - Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Use dev_port for the ID of a network device.

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Message-ID: <20140701123208.GC1204@oc0268524204.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:32:08 -0300
From:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Use dev_port for the ID of a network
 device.

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
> <cascardo@...ux.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.

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