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Message-Id: <20090411115225.8559c713.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:52:25 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Cc:	fubar@...ibm.com, steve@...utenetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bonding: fix zero address hole bug in arp_ip_target
 list

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:20:02 -0400 Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com> wrote:

> Fix a zero address hole bug in the bonding arp_ip_target list
> that was causing the bond to ignore ARP replies (bugz 13006).
> Instead of just setting the array entry to zero, we now
> copy any additional entries down one slot, putting the
> zero entry at the end.  With this change we can now have
> all the loops that walk the array stop when they hit a zero
> since there will be no addresses after it.
> 
> Changes are based in part on code fragment provided in kernel
> bugzilla 13006 by Steve Howard <steve@...utenetworks.com>
> 

This isn't written down anywhere, but...

If the patch addresses a bugzilla report, please quote the full
bugzilla URL in the changelog.  ie:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13006

Because people sometime will go through the commit logs closing off
bugzilla reports.  Using a standardised pattern for them to search for
helps in this activity.


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