On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:40:02PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > I'm still wondering whether it was a good idea to switch from ib<n> > style names to port GIDs. Not only will that make it hard for users to > match the ib<n> names already assigned to InfiniBand HCAs with target > port names but this also deviates from the naming scheme used for any > other Linux device. Ethernet devices e.g. appear as eth<n> in /dev > instead of a MAC address like 00:1a:64:10:18:6f. The ib# names returned by ip addr are already disjoint from the namespace that is being used by SRP targets. The only choices are port GUID or something like mlx4_0/1, the later is somewhat less commonly used.. Is there some approach here for selecting the pkey as well? Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
