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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: Bonding driver unreliable under high CPUload
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:07:15 -0400
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
   "Cureington, Tony" <tony.cureington@hp.com>,
   Pascal Brisset <pascal.brisset-ml@wanadoo.fr>,
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To: "Chad N. Tindel" <ctindel@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>
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Chad N. Tindel wrote:
>>>Also, a further question:  do you have access to the slave struct
>>>net_device?  If so, just test netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) and avoid all
>>>that ioctl calling if it returns non-zero.
>>
>>Make that "avoid all that ioctl calling from interrupt context", which
>>is a bug.  Of the box-killing variety ;)
> 
> 
> Will netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) always work?  Do all drivers support the
> __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER flag?


No.  Read again the precise language I used :)