From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:13:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20170207091356.GA28400@kroah.com> References: <148640852878.13713.11121939459524566022.stgit@tstruk-mobl1.ra.intel.com> <148640853387.13713.5705865367460168894.stgit@tstruk-mobl1.ra.intel.com> <20170206192642.GA22482@obsidianresearch.com> <20170206210425.GA2062@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170206210425.GA2062-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Jason Gunthorpe , Tadeusz Struk , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org, dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Thirded :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html