netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:45:23 -0700
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

>Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> writes:
>
>> 	No, to both questions.  Also, if I back out the 7 bonding
>> patches, the same insmod / rmmod does not panic.  
>>
>> 	I just set it up and did it again.  Fresh boot of the system
>> (which doesn't load bonding); "insmod drivers/net/bonding/bonding.ko;
>> rmmod bonding" and blammo.
>>
>> 	A little bisect action reveals that the problem first appears
>> after applying the fifth patch (below).  Does a basic insmod / rmmod
>> cycle work ok for you?  I'm specifying no options to bonding.
>
>It works here.  The only issue I found was that veth wasn't quite
>working.   I am wondering if there was some version of the tree
>where rtnl_link_unregister is broken and you applied the patches to that.

	Must have been, I did a pull of net-next-2.6 and it seems to
work ok now.  Not sure what it was; I was only a day or so behind.
Anyway, it doesn't panic now; I'll give it some further testing next
week.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com
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