Re: [PATCH] cxgb4: use dev_port to identify ports

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
<cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That use was removed by commit
> 8c367fcbe6549195d2eb11e62bea233f811aad41 ("cxgb4: Do not set
> net_device::dev_id to VI index"), since dev_id should be used only when
> devices share the same MAC address.
>
> Using dev_port for cxgb4 allows different ports on the same PCI function
> to be identified.

Can you describe what issues were introduced because of this then?

  Luis
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