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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:21:23 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, alan.brady@...el.com,
 pavan.kumar.linga@...el.com, sridhar.samudrala@...el.com,
 shailendra.bhatnagar@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] idpf: distinguish vports by the dev_port attribute

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:50:40 +0100 you wrote:
> idpf registers multiple netdevs (virtual ports) for one PCI function,
> but it does not provide a way for userspace to distinguish them with
> sysfs attributes. Per Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net, it is
> a bug not to set dev_port for independent ports on the same PCI bus,
> device and function.
> 
> Without dev_port set, systemd-udevd's default naming policy attempts
> to assign the same name ("ens2f0") to all four idpf netdevs on my test
> system and obviously fails, leaving three of them with the initial
> eth<N> name.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] idpf: distinguish vports by the dev_port attribute
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/359724fa3ab7

You are awesome, thank you!
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