netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:20:22 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Moni Shoua <monis@...taire.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, fubar@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver

 > 1. When bonding enslaves an IPoIB device the bonding neighbor holds a 
 > reference to a cleanup function in the IPoIB drives. This makes it unsafe to 
 > unload the IPoIB module if there are bonding neighbors in the air. So, to 
 > avoid this race one must unload bonding before unloading IPoIB. 

I think we really want to resolve this somehow.  Getting an oops by
doing "modprobe -r ipoib" isn't that friendly.

Also, what happened to the problem of having an address handle
belonging to the wrong device on bond failover?  Did you figure out a
way to fix that one?

 - R.
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