Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: Enable pkey and device name decoupling

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:03:40PM -0700, Mukesh Kacker wrote:

> Having devices with names like ib0.datanet, ib1.cellnet or any other
> ib<N>.<string> simplifies that life of people designing the management tools
> for networks and integrating them for the use case of renumbering of pkeys.

You should already be able to rename ipoib devices via 'ip link set name' - why
didn't you use that to get your names?

Do you need atomicity for some reason??

> variant if it requires using device name with pkey values at any stage in
> the use case. Same for delete_named_child.

delete_named_child is ugly, it should be a netlink command, and it
should use a ifindex, not name.

Jason
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