netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

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Message-ID: <4AEA89E9.30902@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:38:33 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support

David Miller a écrit :
> From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:16:54 -0700
> 
>> I recently had it pointed out to me that the bonding driver does not
>> work in a network namespace.  So I have simplified the bonding driver
>> a bit, added support for ip link add and ip link del, and finally made
>> the bonding driver work in multiple network namespaces.
>>
>> The most note worthy change in the patchset is the addition of support
>> in the networking core for registering a sysfs group for a device.
>>
>> Using this in the bonding driver simplifies the code and removes a
>> userspace race between actions triggered by the netlink event and the
>> bonding sysfs attributes appearing.
> 
> I have no objections to these patches, but I'd like the bonding
> folks to have a chance to look at it before I apply to net-next-2.6
> 
> One question though, are you sure this clever extra slot scheme
> in patch #1 works for, f.e., a bond of wireless devices?  It seems
> like it would work out, but I wanted to ask to make sure you
> considered that case.
> 

I have patches against bond driver for unregister_netdevice_queue() stuff,
I'll wait for Eric work being committed first.

Thanks

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