From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Veaceslav Falico Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] bonding: remove vlan special handling Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:33:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20130826203347.GA26371@redhat.com> References: <1377534533-6944-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: Jay Vosburgh , Andy Gospodarek , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jiri Pirko , Alexander Duyck , Cong Wang To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51799 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751739Ab3HZUfG (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:35:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1377534533-6944-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:28:45PM +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote: >The aim of this patchset is to remove bondings' own vlan handling as much >as possible and replace it with the netdev upper device functionality. > >This is achieved by exporting the netdev_upper structure and thus permiting >bonding to work directly with its upper devices. The only non-bonding >change is the exporting of netdev_upper, and the only special treatment of >vlans left is in the rlb mode. > >This patchset solves several issues with bonding, simplifies it overall, >RCUify further and exports netdev_upper for any other users which might >also want to get rid of its own vlan_lists. > >I'm testing it continuously currently, no issues found, will update on >anything. Self-NAK on the whole series, changed the upper device management approach, as suggested by Jiri, and sent the new version.