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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH][Bonding]: keep slave state when admin down
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:22:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153426931.5273.136.camel@jzny2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607201850.k6KIo0hg016751@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 11:50 -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:

> 
> 	Do the initscript and sysconfig packages (/sbin/ifup, ifdown,
> that stuff in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, etc) do the right thing
> with this change?
> 

I havent seen issues so far.

> 	If memory serves, the initscripts will down the bond during
> setup; I'm not sure if there is any dependency on that action releasing
> all (possibly preexisting) slaves.
> 

The one i have experimented with has no issues - but you may be right
some people depend on this behavior at shutdown.

> 	I don't have a big problem with this, but I'm a little concerned
> that there may be dependencies on the existing behavior.

I could add a module parameter that restores old behavior when asked to
and we keep that for a while and have it print a warning message.
The other alternative is just release it and see if someone complains.

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-20 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-20 13:19 [RFC/PATCH][Bonding]: keep slave state when admin down jamal
2006-07-20 18:50 ` Jay Vosburgh
2006-07-20 20:22   ` jamal [this message]
2006-08-03 12:25     ` jamal

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