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| author | Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru> | 2018-09-06 16:51:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> | 2018-09-13 17:47:52 +0200 |
| commit | 9b8b2a323008aedd39a8debb861b825707f01420 (patch) | |
| tree | 42cd9ff568ac75b9d198bdeec1ee9b2a758e7254 /scripts/gfp-translate | |
| parent | Documentation/ABI: document /sys/class/net/*/dev_port (diff) | |
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IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers
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@cs.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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