[ofa-general] ib-bonding release 18

[Moni Shoua]

Hi,

Release 18 of ib-bonding-0.9.0 is available. Please take from the 
usual place (/home/monis/public_html/ofed_1_3).

Change Log:
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1. This package is based on the bonding module that comes with 
   linux-2.6.24-rc1. Besides from moving forward with the code,
   the patches that were once applied to an older bonding code
   from the outside are now part of the kernel. However, due to an
   instability that was found with bonding of 2.6.24-rc1 some patches
   were removed (see list below)

2. This rpm patches the OS to enable initscripts (redhat) and sysconfig (sles)
   to work with bonding support. This achieves the same functionality of persistent 
   configuration as it is being done with the openib script but in a standard way.
   Please read ib-bonding.txt that comes with the package for detailed usage instructions.
   Note that this feature is supported foe Redhat4 (Update 4 or 5) Redhat5 and SLES10 (sp1)

3. Add option --add-slave in ib-bond for adding slave to existing bonding interface

4. Fix bug: Ethernet bonding interfaces go down when calling ib-bond --stop-all




List of patches that were stripped from bonding of 2.6.24-rc11

commit d0e81b7e2246a41d068ecaf15aac9de570816d63
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:51 2007 -0700

    bonding: Acquire correct locks in alb for promisc change
    
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commit 6603a6f25e4bca922a7dfbf0bf03072d98850176
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:50 2007 -0700

    bonding: Convert more locks to _bh, acquire rtnl, for new locking
    
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commit 059fe7a578fba5bbb0fdc0365bfcf6218fa25eb0
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:49 2007 -0700

    bonding: Convert locks to _bh, rework alb locking for new locking
    
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commit 0b0eef66419e9abe6fd62bc958ab7cd0a18f858e
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:48 2007 -0700

    bonding: Convert miimon to new locking
    
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commit cf5f9044934658dd3ffc628a60cd37c70f8168b1
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:47 2007 -0700

    bonding: Convert balance-rr transmit to new locking
    
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commit 1b76b31693d4a6088dec104ff6a6ead54081a3c2
Author: Jay Vosburgh <fubar at us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 17:37:45 2007 -0700

    Convert bonding timers to workqueues
    
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commit 3a4fa0a25da81600ea0bcd75692ae8ca6050d165
Author: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 19 23:10:43 2007 +0200

    Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
    
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commit 1c3f0b8e07de78a86f2dce911f5e245845ce40a8
Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at polymtl.ca>
Date:   Thu Oct 18 23:41:04 2007 -0700

    Change struct marker users