On 02/28/2013 06:55 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> I'd like to see kernel driver work to be sure every multi-port driver >>>> with the same PCI b/d/b/f sets dev_id. That isn't necessarily true >>>> today, which makes it hard to trust. biosdevname needs this too, >>>> until such a time as it's dead. > >>> Do we have a list of these, or is it a matter of doing a driver audit? >>> CC'ing gospo. > >> Right now almost no drivers actually set dev_id. In fact mlx4_en, >> cxgb4, and sfc seem to be the only ones right now. If we feel like this >> a requirement there will be work on the kernel side to add this. > > This only matters if there are multiple devices created by a driver > for one and the same pci device. Like when we have only one entry in > lspci, but multiple interfaces of the same type having this one device > as a parent. > > Is this really common? I would expect this is a very rare exception. How does this relate to a hosting service which assigns a different IP4 for each client domain to the same physical ethernet port? My service has many dozen different IP4 [advertised via DNS] assigned to the same port. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
