Re: [RFC/PATCH][Bonding]: keep slave state when admin down

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

Jay,

I have tested with a standard bootup script - which amongst other things
brings down the bond and gives it a new MAC before bringing it up.

What do you wanna do with the patch? I know if it sits with me it will
be lost. 

cheers,
jamal

On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 16:22 -0400, jamal wrote:
> 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