Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to disambiguate port numbers

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:43:30 +0300

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:01:14AM +0300, Arseny Maslennikov wrote:
> Pre-3.15 userspace had trouble distinguishing different ports
> of a NIC on a single PCI bus/device/function. To solve this,
> a sysfs field `dev_port' was introduced quite a while ago
> (commit v3.14-rc3-739-g3f85944fe207), and some relevant device
> drivers were fixed to use it, but not in case of IPoIB.
>
> The convention for some reason never got documented in the kernel, but
> was immediately adopted by userspace (notably udev[1][2], biosdevname[3])
>
> 3/3 documents the sysfs field — that's why I'm CC-ing netdev.
>
> This series was tested on and applies to 4.19-rc1.
>
> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/020788.html
> [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-July/020804.html
> [3] https://github.com/CloudAutomationNTools/biosdevname/blob/c795d51dd93a5309652f0d635f12a3ecfabfaa72/src/eths.c#L38
>
> Arseny Maslennikov (3):
>   IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers
>   IB/ipoib: Stop using dev_id to expose port numbers

I completely agree with previous Yuval's comment, it makes no sense to
start separate commits for every line.

Please decide what is best and right behavior and do it, instead of
pushing it up to be the maintainer's problem.

Thanks

>   Documentation/ABI: document /sys/class/net/*/dev_port
>
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | 10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.18.0
>