netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andy@...yhouse.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amwang@...hat.com, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: enable netpoll without checking
 link status

From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:05:21 -0400

> Only slaves that are up should transmit netpoll frames, so there is no
> need to check to see if a slave is up before enabling netpoll on it.
> This resolves a reported failure on active-backup bonds where a slave
> interface is down when netpoll was enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
> Tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks Andy.
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