netdev - Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/3] net/core: add NETDEV_BONDING

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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:02:19 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 1/3] net/core: add NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER event

> Add NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER event to be used in a successive patch
> by bonding to announce fail-over for the active-backup mode through the
> netdev events notifier chain mechanism. Such an event can be of use for the
> RDMA CM (communication manager) to let native RDMA ULPs (eg NFS-RDMA, iSER)
> always be aligned with the IP stack, in the sense that they use the same
> ports/links as the stack does. More usages can be done to allow monitoring
> tools based on netlink events being aware to bonding fail-over.

The three patches were generated against and tested with the upstream-next
branch of Jeff's netdev-2.6 tree

Or.
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