Some InfiniBand network devices have multiple ports on the same PCI
function. Prior to this the kernel erroneously used the `dev_id' sysfs
field of those network interfaces to convey the port number to userspace.
`dev_id' is currently 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 76a066f2a2a0268b565459c417b59724b5a3197b, commit message:
`net/mlx4_en: Expose port number through sysfs'.
This commit is separated from the previous one since we may wish to
preserve backwards compatibility with userspace being already dependent
on `dev_id' being different.
Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <a...@cs.msu.ru>
---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index fcd69273de91..ba16a63ee303 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -1880,7 +1880,6 @@ 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
