Users of the ixgbe driver report that after adding devlink support by the commit a0285236ab93 ("ixgbe: add initial devlink support") their configs got broken due to unwanted changes of interfaces names. It's caused by changing names by devlink port initialization flow. To prevent from that set skip_phys_port_name_get flag for ixgbe devlink ports. Reported-by: David Howells Closes: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/4/24/2052 Reported-by: David Kaplan Closes: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg1099410.html Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Przemek Kitszel Fixes: a0285236ab93 ("ixgbe: add initial devlink support") Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski --- v2: use new flag instead of creating blank implementation of ndo_get_phys_port_name() --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c index 54f1b83dfe42..47fae5035b9f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/devlink/devlink.c @@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ int ixgbe_devlink_register_port(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter) attrs.flavour = DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PHYSICAL; attrs.phys.port_number = adapter->hw.bus.func; + attrs.skip_phys_port_name_get = 1; ixgbe_devlink_set_switch_id(adapter, &attrs.switch_id); devlink_port_attrs_set(devlink_port, &attrs); -- 2.31.1