Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: Bonding driver unreliable under high CPUload

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > > Also, a further question:  do you have access to the slave struct
> > > net_device?  If so, just test netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) and avoid all
> > > that ioctl calling if it returns non-zero.
> > Make that "avoid all that ioctl calling from interrupt context", which
> > is a bug.  Of the box-killing variety ;)
>
> Will netif_carrier_ok(slave_dev) always work?  Do all drivers support the
> __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER flag?

No.  Read again the precise language I used :)