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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c index 48eda16db1a7..9b5e11d3fb85 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -2402,7 +2402,18 @@ static ssize_t dev_id_show(struct device *dev, { struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev); - if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port) + /* + * ndev->dev_port will be equal to 0 in old kernel prior to commit + * 9b8b2a323008 ("IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface + * port numbers") Zero was chosen as special case for user space + * applications to fallback and query dev_id to check if it has + * different value or not. + * + * Don't print warning in such scenario. + * + * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358 + */ + if (ndev->dev_port && ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port) netdev_info_once(ndev, "\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n", current->comm); |