Hi All, I would like to propose the discussion about ability to add persistent device naming to RDMA subsystem. Right now, the devices receive their names by simple addition of new free index to the name (mlx5_0, mlx5_1 ...). Such naming scheme depends on the PCI probing and in case of device reset can rename device. Such situation doesn't help to provide constant udev rules, reliable ibverbs hotplug and advanced "set command" of RDMAtool which at some point of time will require reinit of ib_device. In this discussion, I want to present netdev implementation of such feature, talk about implications on libibverbs and suggest possible device name convention. Thanks
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