From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eli@mellanox.co.il
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
rdreier@cisco.com, yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: Save the port number a netdevice uses
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 01:39:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526.013926.28807066.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526081702.GA17160@mtldesk030.lab.mtl.com>
From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:17:02 +0300
> Today, there are no means to know which port of a hardware device a netdev
> interface uses. This patch adds a new field to struct net_device that is used
> to store this value. The network driver should use the SET_NETDEV_PORT_NUM()
> macro to set the port number for the device it manages. For drivers that do not
> set a value, a default value of 1 is set at alloc_netdev_mq().
> This patch also makes use of this feature in the mlx4_en driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
We have an existing dev_id, use it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 8:17 [PATCH] net/core: Save the port number a netdevice uses Eli Cohen
2010-05-26 8:39 ` David Miller [this message]
[not found] ` <20100526.013926.28807066.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-26 8:45 ` Eli Cohen
[not found] ` <20100526084523.GA28748-8YAHvHwT2UEvbXDkjdHOrw/a8Rv0c6iv@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-26 8:55 ` David Miller
2010-05-26 9:08 ` Eli Cohen
[not found] ` <20100526090850.GB28748-8YAHvHwT2UEvbXDkjdHOrw/a8Rv0c6iv@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-26 9:16 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20100526.021635.179940939.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-26 9:19 ` Eli Cohen
2010-06-02 16:42 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1275496949.2115.18.camel-xQnnTUlwzDrdvaEqJLTMTA9jg9n5Vt1AMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-02 17:12 ` David Miller
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