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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html