Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4_en: show device's port used

From: Roland Dreier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:55:47 -0700

> Add a sysfs file under /sys/class/net/<ethx> to show the port number within the
 > device that this network interface is using. This is needed as ConnectX devices
 > have two ports and it is useful to know which port the ethernet devices uses.

How do other multi-port ethernet devices handle this?  Seems that the
cleanest way to handle this would be to add a place for drivers to set
the port number, and export it to userspace in generic code (so everyone
does it the same way).
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