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

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Thirded :)