Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] IB/hfi1: Fix port ordering issue in a multiport device

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:26:42PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Still no on this from me, this is a horrible abuse of the device core.

Seconded.  Netdevice (and thus RDMA) devices names generated by the
kernel are not stable, period.  Use udev and the MAC / port GUID or
whatever the OFI equivalent is to generate stable device names.