bonding questions: carrier based link monitoring / slave device state flags

[Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>]

First, i'd like to verify what is the parameter setting to have the
bonding driver use netif_carrier_ok(slave_device) as the means for
link detection. Is setting use_carrier = 1 enough or one needs to set
miimon to non-zero as well??? (where the value of miimon translates
to the link monitoring frequency).

Second, I understand that an enslaved device must **not** be UP, so
when enslaving a device the bonding driver calls dev_open(slave_device),
and make sure the device is UP, correct?

What i want to better understand here, is whether for the bonding driver
to declare a slave as "being able to carry traffic" it assumes the slave
will move from UP to RUNNING state (and later netif_carrier_ok would
return TRUE) without an IP address being set for the slave device ???

Is (per the bonding driver) the **time** it should take the slave to get
from UP to (RUNNING && carrier_ok) state limited and/or controlled?

Or.