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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 1/6] iproute2: ipa: show switch id
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 22:07:44 +0000
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On 12/04/14 at 10:10pm, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:55:07PM CET, ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:
> >My intuition says we want something like ifindex, but I am not at all
> >certain how switch id is planned to be used.  Given that it is single
> >box I don't expect you are sending it out over the wire.
> 
> No, it is not to be send out.

We discussed this before and stated we would fix this as soon as it's
merged. Let's just define a simple and quick switch id prefix generator
ala ifindex which serves as a unique prefix to all switch ids.

I have time early next week if Jiri doesn't.