> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-rdma- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Leon Romanovsky > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:28 AM > To: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jason Gunthorpe > <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; RDMA mailing list <linux- > rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH rdma-next 3/3] RDMA/nldev: Return device protocol > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reuse existing RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE to give ability for stable > names UDEV rule create Ib device stable names based on link type protocol. > The assumption that devices like mlx4 with duality in their link type under > one IB device struct won't be allowed in the future. > I was under impression that it qedr or cavium driver has iwarp and roce ports on same hca. Any reason to not have the link type on per port basis? If it already exist at port level, than at device level addition is confusing. It is like having port_num in ah_attr and also in qp_attr.
