Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 2 authors, 2018-09-01
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[PATCH v2 1/2] IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers

From: Arseny Maslennikov <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-30 22:26:14
Also in: netdev
Subsystem: infiniband subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Jason Gunthorpe, Leon Romanovsky, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index e3d28f9ad9c0..ba16a63ee303 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ static int ipoib_parent_init(struct net_device *ndev)
 	       sizeof(union ib_gid));
 
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, priv->ca->dev.parent);
-	priv->dev->dev_id = priv->port - 1;
+	priv->dev->dev_port = priv->port - 1;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.18.0
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