From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netpoll and the bonding driver
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:21:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620002118.GA16859@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050619181436.GX27572@waste.org>
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:14:36AM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > I'm trying to implement a netpoll hook for the bonding driver.
>
> My first question would be: does this really make sense to do? Why not
> just bind netpoll to one of the underlying devices?
Depending on the bonding mode, this would be very unlikely to work.
The other side of the link will still be expecting to talk to the
bond rather than to an individual link.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-17 19:56 netpoll and the bonding driver Jeff Moyer
2005-06-19 18:14 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-20 0:21 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2005-06-20 15:01 ` Jeff Moyer
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