[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] rdma/addr: keep the netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr

[Steve Wise]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Keep also the local (src) netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr. In a High-Availability
>  > scheme this can be used by the rdma-cm to align RDMA sessions to use the same links as
>  > the IP stack does under fail-over and route change cases.
>
> Is the netdevice name the best we can do?  It seems pretty fragile in
> the face of renaming etc.
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shouldn't it keep the netdev ptr?  Like a neigh entry or a dst entry.