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Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [SET 2][PATCH 2/8][bonding] Propagating master'

To: Laurent DENIEL <laurent.deniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [SET 2][PATCH 2/8][bonding] Propagating master'ssettings toslaves
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11 Aug 2003 22:32:59 -0400
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, shmulik.hen@xxxxxxxxx, bonding-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:31, Laurent DENIEL wrote:

> But I agree that it is interesting to do some stuff at user land, and if 
> the bonding had an option to disable the automatic failover policy, 
> this could be implemented with trigger towards user land application that 
> could use an ioctl call to switch to the appropriate NIC according to

You spoilt otherwise sane text by mentioning ioctl;-> 

> But the fast and simple failover policy shall remain in kernel code.

nod from here. Simple failover policies should stay in the kernel.

cheers,
jamal


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