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From: Eli Cohen <eli-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org>,
	davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Linux RDMA list
	<linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	yevgenyp-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: show device's port used
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:42:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100525174214.GA14745@mtldesk030.lab.mtl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaaarnzzsc.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:55:47AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> How do other multi-port ethernet devices handle this?
I don't think there are many devices out there which have more than
one port.

>  Seems that the
> cleanest way to handle this would be to add a place for drivers to set
> the port number,
So this will require changing all the drivers to put some value there
or we would need to use a default value of 1 for drivers that don't
explicitly set a value.

> and export it to userspace in generic code (so everyone
> does it the same way).
Something like ethtool? But we still need an entry under
/sys/class/net/ethx/, right?
 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-25 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-25 13:55 [PATCH] mlx4_en: show device's port used Eli Cohen
2010-05-25 16:55 ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]   ` <adaaarnzzsc.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-25 17:12     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-25 17:42     ` Eli Cohen [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20100525174214.GA14745-8YAHvHwT2UEvbXDkjdHOrw/a8Rv0c6iv@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-25 21:32         ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]           ` <adask5fy8et.fsf-BjVyx320WGW9gfZ95n9DRSW4+XlvGpQz@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-26 11:35             ` Tziporet Koren

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