From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: Bonding driver unreliable under
 high CPUload
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:48:24 -0400
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
   "Cureington, Tony" <tony.cureington@hp.com>,
   Pascal Brisset <pascal.brisset-ml@wanadoo.fr>,
   bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com
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To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
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Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 
>       Ok, here is a patch for bonding against 2.4.20-pre7.  This gets rid
> of the MII_whatever macros, wraps ioctl() to make it less bad, and replaces
> a couple of magic numbers with friendly labels.
> 
>       Comments?


The patch looks ok but doesn't address the core problem that the link 
state is checked in interrupt context.

	Jeff