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From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Add Nic partitioning mode (57712
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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:49:25 +0200
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Cc: "Dimitris Michailidis" <dm@chelsio.com>,
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On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:21 -0800, Dimitris Michailidis wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
...
> /sys/class/net/<ifname>/dev_id indicates the physical port <ifname> is 
> associated with.  At least a few drivers set up dev_id this way.
> 
> 

So we are on agreement? This can satisf all needs? If so, we will add
this scheme to the bnx2x as well.

Thanks,
Eilon