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IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers
authorArseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:51:11 +0000 (17:51 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:08:37 +0000 (11:08 -0800)
commit24d4d9a43f2624578367e4d3ee7950ed81d165ed
tree5e69991d8648eb5e895741b556bd9b4e6acaff2f
parent1da803c62bf676bf4f34ec409e769c17113b8e6b
IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers

[ Upstream commit 9b8b2a323008aedd39a8debb861b825707f01420 ]

Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI
function. This initializes the `dev_port' sysfs field of those
network interfaces with their port number.

Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs
field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace.

The use of `dev_id' was considered correct until Linux 3.15,
when another field, `dev_port', was defined for this particular
purpose and `dev_id' was 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 76a066f2a2a0 (`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs').

Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c