Re: more findings/questions on vlans/bonds

[Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>]

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>         So, here's a patch with a description.  This resolves the
> bonding problem for me; it might have other undesirable side effects,
> though.  It's debatable whether it's really necessary, but it does make
> the VLAN device behave more like a real network device in this case:
> 
> [PATCH] vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down

Jay, I just can't apply the patch on 2.6.30-rc2 it all fails, which
is quite weird since the code (e.g net/8021q/vlan.c) hasn't gone through
many changes recently - any idea what I do wrong?

Or.

> # patch --dry-run -p 1 < /tmp/vlans_bonds.patch
> patching file net/8021q/vlan.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 492.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 508.
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/8021q/vlan.c.rej
> patching file net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 462.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 472.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 494.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 615.
> 4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/8021q/vlan_dev.c.rej