Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device
Date	2017-02-07 10:20 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:26:42PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Still no on this from me, this is a horrible abuse of the device core.
> 
> Seconded.  Netdevice (and thus RDMA) devices names generated by the
> kernel are not stable, period.  Use udev and the MAC / port GUID or
> whatever the OFI equivalent is to generate stable device names.

Thirded :)

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[PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport  device Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> - 2017-02-06 20:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport  device Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2017-02-06 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport  device Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-02-06 22:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport  device Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-07 10:20 +0100

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