From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261369AbVFTAV5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:21:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261366AbVFTAV5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:21:57 -0400 Received: from apollo.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.2]:62728 "EHLO apollo.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261369AbVFTAVl (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:21:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:21:20 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Matt Mackall Cc: Jeff Moyer , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: netpoll and the bonding driver Message-ID: <20050620002118.GA16859@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Mackall , Jeff Moyer , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <17075.10995.498758.773092@segfault.boston.redhat.com> <20050619181436.GX27572@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050619181436.GX27572@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com