Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:31:39PM CET, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:26:00 +0100 >Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote: > >> Hi Jiri, >> >> On 22.02.2016 19:31, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >> > >> > So far, there has been an mlx4-specific sysfs file allowing user to >> > change port type to either Ethernet of InfiniBand. This is very >> > inconvenient. >> >> Again, I want to express my concerns regarding all of this until this >> will be integrated into udev/systemd for stable device names. While one >> can build wrapper code around devlink to have stable devlink ports, I >> don't see a reason to include kernel code which actually has more >> problems than the sysfs approach. This harms admins to use those devices >> and will additionally require user space to write boiler plate code. >> >> Thanks, >> Hannes >> > >I appreciate that you need to have a lighterweight model for >network devices. But have to agree with Hannes.
No, I don't need to have lighterweight model for network device. This patch does nothing like that. > >This code breaks the model expected by applications like Quagga, SNMP >and lots of other legacy code. Is this really going to work with the >legacy Linux model. No, this patch does not break anything. The original netdev still stay.
