From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
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: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:13:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170207091356.GA28400@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170206210425.GA2062@infradead.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 :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 9:13 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
2017-02-06 19:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-02-06 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-07 9:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
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