On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > >> Since the rdma core currently assigned device name strings, I'm thinking > >> to just follow that scheme. This leads to slightly different command > >> syntax: > >> > >> rdma link add TYPE dev DEV > >> > >> EG: rdma link add rxe dev eth0 > >> > >> Then the kernel would return the resulting ib_device name and index. > > > > I would rather we specify the ib_device name from userspace from the > > start.. > > > > Why? This is not current practice for rdma devices: the core names them. That is a bad practice.. Leon has been working on device renaming like netdev has, so it would make no sense to have no name here and have renaming down the road. Jason
