Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 04:16:11PM CET, han...@stressinduktion.org wrote: <snip>
>>>1) is easily solvable, just drop the ifindex style attributes and always >>>force the user to enter the bus and bus-topology id. >> >>But why? Use can easily get that info and map it to devlink index. It >>aligns with nl80211 iface. >> >>Do you really want to do commands like: >>myhost:~$ dl dev show pci_0000:01:00.0 >> ? > >Yes, exactly I would. I would put them into a boot-up script based on my >system configuration and can be sure it will work the next boot, too, and >adapt them when I replace the hardware or do some configuration changes. > >I think sysadmins or scripts are the primary users of this interface not >kernel developers which switch their settings around all the time, no? I can easily add this to the userspace tool to accept "pci_0000:01:00.0" format and to map it internally to devlink index. No problem.
