From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:31:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041122153144.GA4821@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041122714.AyIOvRY195EGFTaO@topspin.com>
> + When the IPoIB driver is loaded, it creates one interface for each
> + port using the P_Key at index 0. To create an interface with a
> + different P_Key, write the desired P_Key into the main interface's
> + /sys/class/net/<intf name>/create_child file. For example:
> +
> + echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
> +
> + This will create an interface named ib0.8001 with P_Key 0x8001. To
> + remove a subinterface, use the "delete_child" file:
> +
> + echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
> +
> + The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
> + main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
Any reason this doesn't use an interface similar to the normal vlan code?
And what is a P_Key?
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-22 15:31 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-22 15:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-22 15:41 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 8:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
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