netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: introduce primary

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:47:25 -0400
From:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: introduce primary_reselect
 option

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Jay Vosburgh wrote:

> 
> From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
> 
> In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when
> it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid
> packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing
> primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current
> active no matter what.
> 
> Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action
> after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation
> update, and bumped the bonding version number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> 	Note that this patch depends on the "make ab_arp select active
> slaves as other modes" patch recently approved, but not yet appearing in
> net-next-2.6 as I write this.  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/32684/
> 
>  Documentation/networking/bonding.txt |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c      |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c.rej  |   18 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c     |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h        |   11 +++++-
>  5 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c.rej

I doubt you intended to include a patch reject file in your patch.

						-Bill
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