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

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 24 23:02:22 PST 2009


Moni Shoua wrote:
> The additional comment below is to a request from Pradeep Satyanarayana 
> who opened bugzilla 1821.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
> ---
> 
> 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.
> +
>  ===============================================================================
>  4. IPoIB Configuration Based on DHCP
>  ===============================================================================
> 

Applied,

Regards,
Vladimir



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