Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 08/19] RDMA/core: Expose translation from device name to ib_device

From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:07:48 -0600

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:05:17AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> 
> Provide ability to convert from device name to ib_device for the
> IB/core users.

FWIW, as a general comment, we really need to start using some kind of
device index like netdev does instead of the name. I'd like the see
the new netlink interface be index based.

As we saw in a past discussion there is a desire to have stable device
naming, which means renaming...

Jason