From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 08/19] RDMA/core: Expose translation from device name to ib_device Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:31:25 +0300 Message-ID: <20170622053125.GK1248@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20170621060528.3752-1-leon@kernel.org> <20170621060528.3752-9-leon@kernel.org> <20170621160748.GA10200@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBYU9MM4gf8jKg2V" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170621160748.GA10200-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Chien Tin Tung , Steve Wise , Stephen Hemminger , Jiri Pirko , Ariel Almog , Linux Netdev List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --gBYU9MM4gf8jKg2V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:07:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:05:17AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > From: Leon Romanovsky > > > > Provide ability to convert from device name to ib_device for the > > IB/core users. > > FWIW, as a general comment, we really need to start using some kind of > device index like netdev does instead of the name. I'd like the see > the new netlink interface be index based. I can do it, but it won't be full solution as I would like to have. At this stage, IB doesn't support namespaces yet and to implement them is a little bit overkill for rdmatool. > > As we saw in a past discussion there is a desire to have stable device > naming, which means renaming... If I recall correctly, after your proposal the participants disappeared :). > > Jason --gBYU9MM4gf8jKg2V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAllLViwACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKdPdhAAkyTEVfUS+LqhK001A6g2TzxLCp9Z9Ypss2GjWIFGuBXbyJeIukPO/C7N 196r0EHZnaVF4keNbageS7EC15anYp8ek1WgX5ZPTOpXKNC0kOREx8CbgV0PCogE 8wkpKSfflDgh5POqT+Q0MlSRL5K9dJl2TW9j8aMFKp7p6y4FyE/uDUgzxFo9WpkO 4BnjMr1SuCCxPWmmzaEvvtsNAcSFCPAaJscZAVj5z20+iBBo37RY8UEK73kFZuWq ZVeDf1ZJWVzW4DOaLMh09VfIMFHDmOLsL/HJqr3OtpmR2FdkRsgzvHQG2zusHdV+ 1FvvXguMaZGmPF3icBj6dGYBFGY/MJvcloQYUvt+XROswFmUXzmVcQ3+YeYa75Nu OnCWG75w+vlBAv9h8wu2sETbwUvW3OfpKS8djH4vTUkY2rhYslL7whUCScHL8ZwJ SaH6S8L3gvmjCKUoitezmZzF9o4EcfX5FWavO5+f+8dK2bNvD1Cy+DdA2JLCT3Gx Jy85VLqu6kgU+3Ji9GQRnjdKdVXE7upaAxODHTS6LmKNZwsyY84SmBInpAzwD6nC aPyAhYYkpR+0Mv0RbDIAU3SrTCI3purt7aQHy61blEcBlf4I4h/ueN4C5DvZ+k4a BJStugwsXwtpieoKUcZ5qfTse267HFi3pzZWwWUBxDwK/M7J3EA= =Lyak -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBYU9MM4gf8jKg2V-- -- 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