netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v3 0/2] bonding: Fix some issues for fail_over

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Date:	Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:48:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	dingtianhong@...wei.com, vfalico@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v3 0/2] bonding: Fix some issues for
 fail_over_mac

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:31 -0800

> 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>

Series applied, thanks.
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