netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix destruction of bond with devices different from arphrd

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:14:31 +0200
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
	gospo@...ulusnetworks.com, clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix destruction of bond with devices
 different from arphrd_ether

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:54:06AM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
...snip...
>My personal opinion would be to disable non-ethernet devices, but support was
>already added and has been there for a long time so we have to fix this for
>the older releases, I don't mind removing non-ethernet device support for net-next
>but I'm guessing there're people still using that like the case that started
>this thread.

Yep, last time non-ethernet devices broke there were quite a few reports
for ppp users, and infiniband is indeed used a lot too. No options here, we
must support it...
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