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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Subject: Re: The bonding driver should notify userspace of MAC address change
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:12:49 -0700
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:53:10AM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> >A bonding device should not report link up to userspace until at least one slave is present and up.
> >
> >And possibly, a bonding device should report link down if all slaves are down or all slave were removed.
> >
> >Jay, Andy, does this sounds sensible to you?
> 
> 	I was just reading their bug and doing an experiment; I don't
> see that bonding reports carrier up until there's at least one slave
> (even if it's configured up), e.g.,
> 

This was only recently fixed - see e826eafa65c6f1f7c8db5a237556cebac57ebcc5
(bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice). Perhaps the
reporter is not using a recent kernel?

Phil