netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers

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Date:   Wed, 5 Sep 2018 16:41:03 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Arseny Maslennikov <ar@...msu.ru>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network
 interface port numbers

On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI
> function. This initializes the `dev_port' sysfs field of those
> network interfaces with their port number.
>
> Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs
> field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace.
>
> The use of `dev_id' was considered correct until Linux 3.15,
> when another field, `dev_port', was defined for this particular
> purpose and `dev_id' was reserved for distinguishing stacked ifaces
> (e.g: VLANs) with the same hardware address as their parent device.
>
> Similar fixes to net/mlx4_en and many other drivers, which started
> exporting this information through `dev_id' before 3.15, were accepted
> into the kernel 4 years ago.
> See 76a066f2a2a0 (`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs').
>
> Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@...msu.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

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