Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] RDMA/nldev: provide detailed CM_ID information

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:33:07AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:

> Perhaps we add a device-unique (or globally unique) identifier as part of
> the restrack struct and use that for GET/SET?

What use is an ID if the user can't associate that with something
meaningful?

For userspace, a tuple of the filehandle and existing the per-file
handle # would make some sense as a unique ID, but userspace is going
to have a pointer not necessarily the handle number :(

Jason
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