[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] rdma/addr: keep the netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jun 18 13:44:21 PDT 2008
> Taking into account that under this scheme the hw address of the netdevice
> changes, I didn't see something really better than the name, were you
> thinking on some specific alternative? just saving pointer to the netdevice
> seemed quite not elegant...
To me using the pointer to the netdev seems much cleaner than doing a
string comparison on the name, but I'm probably missing something. Why
didn't you like that idea?
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