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From: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
	Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,  "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix the sysfs port name translation
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 05:41:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM4PR12MB5184BA475B2FA638F76C043FD0009@DM4PR12MB5184.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221110082154.118781cd@hermes.local>

Hi Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 12:22 AM
> To: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] common/mlx5: fix the sysfs port name
> translation
> 
> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:57:26 +0200
> Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
> > With some OFED or upstream kernel of mlx5, the port name fetched
> from
> > "/sys/class/net/[DEV]/phys_port_name" may have a tailing "\n" as
> the
> > EOL. The sscanf() will return the scanned items number with this
> EOL.
> 
> Why not fix the DPDK driver to strip off the new line when the port
> name is read? The code in mlx5_os.c should do it there.

Thanks for your comments. Yes, IF_NAMESIZE is large enough to read all the characters including the newline into the buffer.
After fgets(), the strlen() or strchr() can be used to remove the tailing newline character.


BR. Bing

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-11  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-10 15:57 Bing Zhao
2022-11-10 16:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-11-11  5:41   ` Bing Zhao [this message]
2022-11-11 17:38     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-22 11:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Bing Zhao
2023-03-22 14:58   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-23  8:20     ` Bing Zhao
2023-03-22 14:59   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-23  8:23     ` Bing Zhao
2023-03-23 10:54   ` [PATCH v3] net/mlx5: " Bing Zhao
2023-03-27 15:00     ` Matan Azrad
2023-03-28  8:39     ` Raslan Darawsheh

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