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* [patch 2.6.14-rc4] bonding: cleanup comment for mode 1 IGMP xmit hack
@ 2005-10-19  1:30 John W. Linville
  2005-10-19  2:27 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: John W. Linville @ 2005-10-19  1:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, netdev; +Cc: jgarzik, ctindel, fubar, bonding-devel

Expand comment explaining MAC address selection for replicated IGMP
frames transmitted in bonding mode 1 (active-backup).  Also, a small
whitespace cleanup.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4242,8 +4242,8 @@ out:
 }
 
 static void bond_activebackup_xmit_copy(struct sk_buff *skb,
-                                         struct bonding *bond,
-                                         struct slave *slave)
+                                        struct bonding *bond,
+                                        struct slave *slave)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb2 = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	struct ethhdr *eth_data;
@@ -4259,7 +4259,11 @@ static void bond_activebackup_xmit_copy(
 	skb2->mac.raw = (unsigned char *)skb2->data;
 	eth_data = eth_hdr(skb2);
 
-	/* Pick an appropriate source MAC address */
+	/* Pick an appropriate source MAC address
+	 *	-- use slave's perm MAC addr, unless used by bond
+	 *	-- otherwise, borrow active slave's perm MAC addr
+	 *	   since that will not be used
+	 */
 	hwaddr = slave->perm_hwaddr;
 	if (!memcmp(eth_data->h_source, hwaddr, ETH_ALEN))
 		hwaddr = bond->curr_active_slave->perm_hwaddr;

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* Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc4] bonding: cleanup comment for mode 1 IGMP xmit hack
  2005-10-19  1:30 [patch 2.6.14-rc4] bonding: cleanup comment for mode 1 IGMP xmit hack John W. Linville
@ 2005-10-19  2:27 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2005-10-19  2:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John W. Linville; +Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, ctindel, fubar, bonding-devel

applied

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