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Message-ID: <122dbae7-7327-698a-110f-cc87c513e115@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 May 2018 08:19:26 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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Subject: Re: [patch iproute2/net-next 2/2] devlink: introduce support for
 showing port number and split subport number

On 5/24/18 12:39 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:05:49PM CEST, dsahern@...il.com wrote:
>> On 5/20/18 2:15 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>>> ---
>>>  devlink/devlink.c            | 6 ++++++
>>>  include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 2 ++
>>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/devlink/devlink.c b/devlink/devlink.c
>>> index df2c66dac1c7..b0ae17767dab 100644
>>> --- a/devlink/devlink.c
>>> +++ b/devlink/devlink.c
>>> @@ -1737,9 +1737,15 @@ static void pr_out_port(struct dl *dl, struct nlattr **tb)
>>>  
>>>  		pr_out_str(dl, "flavour", port_flavour_name(port_flavour));
>>>  	}
>>> +	if (tb[DEVLINK_ATTR_PORT_NUMBER])
>>> +		pr_out_uint(dl, "number",
>>> +			    mnl_attr_get_u32(tb[DEVLINK_ATTR_PORT_NUMBER]));
>>
>> "number" is a label means nothing. "port" is more descriptive.
> 
> That attribute name is "port_number". As the other attributes are
> named "port_something", and the "something" is printed out here, the
> "number" is consistent with it. Each line represents a port with a list
> of attributes.

The name of the attribute is not relevant here. That's an API that very
few people will see. I am looking at this from a user perspective and
the word "number" followed by a number is not clear.

> 
>>
>> # ./devlink port
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/1: type eth netdev swp17 flavour physical number 17
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/3: type eth netdev swp18 flavour physical number 18
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/5: type eth netdev swp19 flavour physical number 19
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/7: type eth netdev swp20 flavour physical number 20
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/9: type eth netdev swp21 flavour physical number 21
>> ...
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/61: type eth netdev swp1s0 flavour physical number 1
>> split_group 1 subport 0
>> pci/0000:03:00.0/62: type eth netdev swp1s1 flavour physical number 1
>> split_group 1 subport 1
>>