[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH V6 0/9] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver

[Jay Vosburgh]

ACK patches 3 - 9.

	Roland, are you comfortable with the IB changes in patches 1 and 2?

	Jeff, when Roland acks patches 1 and 2, please apply all 9.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar at us.ibm.com


Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com> wrote:

>This patch series is the sixth version (see below link to V5) of the 
>suggested changes to the bonding driver so it would be able to support 
>non ARPHRD_ETHER netdevices for its High-Availability (active-backup) mode. 
>
>Patches 1-8 were originally submitted in V5 and patch 9 is an addition by Jay.
>
>
>Major changes from the previous version:
>----------------------------------------
>
>1. Remove the patches to net/core. Bonding will use the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN notification
>   instead of NETDEV_CHANGE+IFF_SLAVE_DETACH. This reduces the amount of patches from 11
>   to 9.
>
>Links to earlier discussion:
>----------------------------
>
>1. A discussion in netdev about bonding support for IPoIB.
>http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2006/11/30/46
>
>2. V5 series
>http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2007-September/040996.html
>
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