netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:58:06 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:54:39PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This adds support for a configuring the minimum number of links that
> must be active before asserting carrier. It is similar to the Cisco
> EtherChannel min-links feature. This allows setting the minimum number
> of member ports that must be up (link-up state) before marking the
> bond device as up (carrier on). This is useful for situations where
> higher level services such as clustering want to ensure a minimum
> number of low bandwidth links are active before switchover.
> 
> See:
>    http://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7196
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> ---
> v2 - need to transition to carrier_off if insufficient number of links
>      and whitespace cleanup
> 

Looks good.  Thanks for fixing bond_3ad_set_carrier.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
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