On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:07:48AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:05:17AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Provide ability to convert from device name to ib_device for the > > IB/core users. > > FWIW, as a general comment, we really need to start using some kind of > device index like netdev does instead of the name. I'd like the see > the new netlink interface be index based. I can do it, but it won't be full solution as I would like to have. At this stage, IB doesn't support namespaces yet and to implement them is a little bit overkill for rdmatool. > > As we saw in a past discussion there is a desire to have stable device > naming, which means renaming... If I recall correctly, after your proposal the participants disappeared :). > > Jason
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