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Date:	Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:31 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
cc:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v3 0/2] bonding: Fix some issues for fail_over_mac

Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com> wrote:

>The parameter fail_over_mac only affect active-backup mode, if it was
>set to active or follow and works with other modes, just like RR or XOR
>mode, the bonding could not set all slaves to the master's address, it
>will cause the slave could not work well with master.
>
>v1->v2: According Jay's suggestion, that we should permit setting an option
>	at any time, but only have it take effect in active-backup mode, so
>	I add mode checking together with fail_over_mac during enslavement and
>	rebuild the patches.
>
>v2->v3: The correct way to fix the problem is that we should not add restrictions when
>    	setting options, just need to modify the bond enslave and removal processing
>    	to check the mode in addition to fail_over_mac when setting a slave's MAC during
>    	enslavement. The change active slave processing already only calls the fail_over_mac
>    	function when in active-backup mode.
>
>	Remove the cleanup patch because the net-next is frozen now.
>
>Regards
>Ding

	Both patches look good to me.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>

	-J
	
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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com

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