From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
dennis.dalessandro@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
grant.likely@secretlab.ca, dledford@redhat.com,
ira.weiny@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:04:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206210425.GA2062@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170206192642.GA22482@obsidianresearch.com>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:26:42PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Still no on this from me, this is a horrible abuse of the device core.
Seconded. Netdevice (and thus RDMA) devices names generated by the
kernel are not stable, period. Use udev and the MAC / port GUID or
whatever the OFI equivalent is to generate stable device names.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-06 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-06 19:15 [PATCH RFC 1/2] driver core: allow EPROBE_DEFER after boot Tadeusz Struk
2017-02-06 19:15 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device Tadeusz Struk
[not found] ` <148640853387.13713.5705865367460168894.stgit-mEAvsCHCuLl9qtVHHdszJa2pdiUAq4bhAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-06 19:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-02-06 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20170206210425.GA2062-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-07 9:13 ` Greg KH
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