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can: etas_es58x: es58x_init_netdev: populate net_device::dev_port
authorVincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:05:53 +0000 (03:05 +0900)
committerMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:09:00 +0000 (12:09 +0100)
commit403079ece8fd9ddd277d1b561ccf93196cff09ec
treebd38386428dc522faf05f6bedc552fc36ee8737c
parent67c3bb6ec5a6dc316b75a476d9ea0ae04cfd6ec1
can: etas_es58x: es58x_init_netdev: populate net_device::dev_port

The field dev_port of struct net_device indicates the port number of a
network device [1]. This patch populates this field.

This field can be helpful to distinguish between the two network
interfaces of a dual channel device (i.e. ES581.4 or ES582.1). Indeed,
at the moment, all the network interfaces of a same device share the
same static udev attributes c.f. output of:

| udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/class/net/canX

The dev_port attribute can then be used to write some udev rules to,
for example, assign a permanent name to each network interface based
on the serial/dev_port pair (which is convenient when you have a test
bench with several CAN devices connected simultaneously and wish to
keep consistent interface names upon reboot).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211026180553.1953189-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr
Suggested-by: Lukas Magel <lukas.magel@escrypt.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
drivers/net/can/usb/etas_es58x/es58x_core.c