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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