Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 May 2011 10:57:28 -0600 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge |
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> I'm still wondering whether it was a good idea to switch from ib<n> > style names to port GIDs. Not only will that make it hard for users to > match the ib<n> names already assigned to InfiniBand HCAs with target > port names but this also deviates from the naming scheme used for any > other Linux device. Ethernet devices e.g. appear as eth<n> in /dev > instead of a MAC address like 00:1a:64:10:18:6f.
The ib# names returned by ip addr are already disjoint from the namespace that is being used by SRP targets. The only choices are port GUID or something like mlx4_0/1, the later is somewhat less commonly used..
Is there some approach here for selecting the pkey as well?
Jason
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