From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Changelog: v0 -> v1: * Based on Jason's latest dev_name changes * Dropped all patches related to alloc_name changes ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, This series introduce long-waiting feature - "IB device rename". Such feature gives and option to rename user visible IB device name from vendor specific name (e.g. mlx5_0) to anything else. The user space component through rdmatool was already sent to the ML. [leonro@server /]$ lspci |grep -i Ether 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio network device 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4] [leonro@server /]$ sudo rdma dev 1: mlx5_0: node_type ca fw 3.8.9999 node_guid 5254:00c0:fe12:3455 sys_image_guid 5254:00c0:fe12:3455 [leonro@server /]$ sudo rdma dev set mlx5_0 name hfi1_0 [leonro@server /]$ sudo rdma dev 1: hfi1_0: node_type ca fw 3.8.9999 node_guid 5254:00c0:fe12:3455 sys_image_guid 5254:00c0:fe12:3455 This functionality is done through RDMA netlink and implemented by device_rename() function, despite the comment from 2010, which warns about downsides of this function, the netdev is still uses, so we will use too. This series was tested with mlx5 devices with/without traffic and with non-modified rdma-core. Leon Romanovsky (2): RDMA/core: Implement IB device rename function RDMA/nldev: Allow IB device rename through RDMA netlink drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h | 1 + drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.14.4
