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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, jiri@resnulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: dsa: Implement ndo_get_phys_port_name()
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:58:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60d188ef-a080-1707-9ff2-0ebfa58b81d2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170110205043.GM22820@lunn.ch>

On 01/10/2017 12:50 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:32:36PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Return the physical port number of a DSA created network device using
>> ndo_get_phys_port_name().
> 
> At what level does this need to be unique?

This needs to be unique to the switch I would say,
ndo_get_phys_switch_id would return the physical number of the switch
device in the tree/cluster, so that number plus the port name should be
an unique differentiator that is good enough for e.g: a persistent
naming rule?

> 
> We can have multiple switches within one switch cluster. p->port will
> be unique within one switch, but can be repeated in a cluster.
> 
> We can also have multiple clusters, and again p->port will be re-used.


-- 
Florian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 20:32 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: dsa: Implement ndo_get_phys_port_name() Florian Fainelli
2017-01-10 20:32 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] " Florian Fainelli
2017-01-10 20:44   ` Vivien Didelot
2017-01-10 20:50   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-01-10 20:58     ` Vivien Didelot
2017-01-10 20:58     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2017-01-11  7:28       ` Jiri Pirko
2017-01-11  7:29   ` Jiri Pirko
2017-01-10 20:32 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] Revert "net: dsa: Implement ndo_get_phys_port_id" Florian Fainelli
2017-01-10 20:44   ` Vivien Didelot
2017-01-11  7:29   ` Jiri Pirko
2017-01-11 14:59 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: dsa: Implement ndo_get_phys_port_name() David Miller

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