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From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 5/9] bonding: convert bond_has_this_ip() to
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:00:24 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:10:01PM +0200, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
...snip...
>3) Adding lower_dev_list, populating it accordingly, and also adding an int
>distance to the netdev_upper (or, with this approach, rather netdev_adjacent
>or something like that), which will help to implement your idea - a device
>will have lower/upper_dev_list populated with all lower/upper devices and
>their distance (i.e. distance == 1 means that it's first level of
>lower/upper device). With this approach, we might also afterwards get rid
>of slave lists from 'grouping' devices like bonding/team/bridge/etc. and,
>thus, the locking.

Just FYI, I've taken this approach in the next version, seems to (suddenly)
work fine, FWIW...

I'll send the v2 in few minutes.

Thanks again!