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    IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface port numbers · 9b8b2a32
    Arseny Maslennikov authored
    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 76a066f2 (`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs').
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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