On Tue, 25 May 2010 09:55:47 -0700 Roland Dreier <rdre...@cisco.com> wrote:
> > Add a sysfs file under /sys/class/net/<ethx> to show the port number > within the > > device that this network interface is using. This is needed as ConnectX > devices > > have two ports and it is useful to know which port the ethernet devices > uses. > > How do other multi-port ethernet devices handle this? Seems that the > cleanest way to handle this would be to add a place for drivers to set > the port number, and export it to userspace in generic code (so everyone > does it the same way). There is a rarely used field in net_device called dev_id that looks like it was intended for this. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
