netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bonding: fix string comparison errors

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:08:30 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Takuma Umeya <tumeya@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bonding: fix string comparison errors

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:07:59PM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> When a bond contains a device where one name is the subset of another
> (eth1 and eth10, for example), one cannot properly set the primary
> device or the currently active device.
> 
> This was reported and based on work by Takuma Umeya.  I also verified
> the problem and tested that this fix resolves it.
> 
> V2: A few did not like the the current code or my changes, so I
> re-factored bonding_store_primary and bonding_store_active_slave to be a
> bit cleaner, dropped the use of strnicmp since we did not really need
> the comparison to be case insensitive, and formatted the input string
> from sysfs so a comparison to IFNAMSIZ could be used.
> 
> I also discovered an error in bonding_store_active_slave that would
> modify bond->primary_slave rather than bond->curr_active_slave before
> forcing the bonding driver to choose a new active slave.
> 

Sorry I apparently cannot properly use git send-email. :-)

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