[ewg] [PATCH] docs: add to ipoib known issues

Moni Shoua monis at Voltaire.COM
Tue Nov 24 07:53:34 PST 2009


The additional comment below is to a request from Pradeep Satyanarayana 
who opened bugzilla 1821.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
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diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index 2d1217a..0aba56d 100644
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ Usage and configuration:
 15. IPoIB multicast support is broken in RH4.x kernels. This is because
     ndisc_mc_map() does not handle IPOIB hardware addresses.
 
+16. If bonding uses IPoIB slave then unenslaving all slaves (or downing them
+     with ifdown) followed by unloading the module ib_ipoib might crash the
+     kernel. To avoid this leave the IPoIB interfaces enslaved when unloading
+     ib_ipoib.
+
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 4. IPoIB Configuration Based on DHCP
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