From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110316.125837.229748529.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1300140321-12056-1-git-send-email-andy@greyhouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, amwang@redhat.com, fubar@us.ibm.com To: andy@greyhouse.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33310 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753528Ab1CPT6A (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:58:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1300140321-12056-1-git-send-email-andy@greyhouse.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andy Gospodarek Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:05:21 -0400 > Only slaves that are up should transmit netpoll frames, so there is no > need to check to see if a slave is up before enabling netpoll on it. > This resolves a reported failure on active-backup bonds where a slave > interface is down when netpoll was enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek > Tested-by: WANG Cong Applied, thanks Andy.