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

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Message-ID: <20090925132518.GA3657@psychotron.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:25:19 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.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

Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:47:25AM CEST, billfink@...dspring.com wrote:
>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.

Noticed - I'm about to resend...
>
>						-Bill
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