Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI function. This initializes the `dev_port' sysfs field of those network interfaces with their port number. Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace. The use of `dev_id' was considered correct until Linux 3.15, when another field, `dev_port', was defined for this particular purpose and `dev_id' was reserved for distinguishing stacked ifaces (e.g: VLANs) with the same hardware address as their parent device. Similar fixes to net/mlx4_en and many other drivers, which started exporting this information through `dev_id' before 3.15, were accepted into the kernel 4 years ago. See 76a066f2a2a0 (`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs'). Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c index e3d28f9ad9c0..ba16a63ee303 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ static int ipoib_parent_init(struct net_device *ndev) sizeof(union ib_gid)); SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, priv->ca->dev.parent); - priv->dev->dev_id = priv->port - 1; + priv->dev->dev_port = priv->port - 1; return 0; } -- 2.18.0
