Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] IB/ipoib: Stop using dev_id to expose port numbers

From: Yuval Shaia <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:40:20 +0300

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:42:23PM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI
> function. Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs
> field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace.
> 
> `dev_id' is currently reserved for distinguishing stacked ifaces
> (e.g: VLANs) with the same hardware address as their parent device.
> 
> Similar fixes to net/mlx4_en and many other drivers, which started
> exporting this information through `dev_id' before 3.15, were accepted
> into the kernel 4 years ago.
> See 76a066f2a2a0268b565459c417b59724b5a3197b, commit message:
> `net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs'.
> 
> I would be OK with this commit not being backported to stable, since
> it might break admin-supplied udev rules and the likes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> index 6eb0594fffec..f64535038147 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> @@ -2252,7 +2252,6 @@ static struct net_device *ipoib_add_port(const char *format,
>  	}
>  
>  	SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, hca->dev.parent);
> -	priv->dev->dev_id = port - 1;

Correct me if i'm wrong here but besides some changes in commit message
looks like patch 1/3 is the same as 2/3, isn't it?

Yuval

>  	priv->dev->dev_port = port - 1;
>  
>  	result = ib_query_port(hca, port, &attr);
> -- 
> 2.18.0
>