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Message-ID: <20211029111829.crrwdjizlflzzhq2@pengutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:18:29 +0200
From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Cc: linux-can@...r.kernel.org, Lukas Magel <lukas.magel@...rypt.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] can: etas_es58x: es58x_init_netdev: populate
net_device::dev_port
On 27.10.2021 03:05:53, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> The field dev_port of struct net_device indicates the port number of a
> network device [1]. This patch populates this field.
>
> This field can be helpful to distinguish between the two network
> interfaces of a dual channel device (i.e. ES581.4 or ES582.1). Indeed,
> at the moment, all the network interfaces of a same device share the
> same static udev attributes c.f. output of:
>
> | udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/class/net/canX
>
> The dev_port attribute can then be used to write some udev rules to,
> for example, assign a permanent name to each network interface based
> on the serial/dev_port pair (which is convenient when you have a test
> bench with several CAN devices connected simultaneously and wish to
> keep consistent interface names upon reboot).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net
>
> Suggested-by: Lukas Magel <lukas.magel@...rypt.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Applied to linux-can-next/testing.
Thanks,
Marc
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