From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:42:29 +0100

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> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 02:16 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:08:52 +0300
>> 
>> > So if I understand you correctly, you think that I should not bother
>> > to set a default value of 1. Each driver that cares about the value
>> > of this field, will set it however they want.
>> 
>> I actually mean that the value "0" should mean the first port,
>> the value "1" should mean the second port, etc.
> 
> There's a compatibility problem here though: when user-space looks at
> this number it can't tell whether "0" really means the first port or
> that the driver isn't setting dev_id.

That's perfect, it means we don't have to add explicit settings to
drivers which driver only one port.  Ie. the vast majority of
cases.

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