> patch set can be downloaded from:
> http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bonding/bonding-cleanup-2.4.23-pre5.tar.bz2
>
> This will update the following files:
>
> Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
> Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.h
> drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> include/linux/if_bonding.h
>
> Description:
> patch 1 - ifenslave lite - No more IP settings to slaves, unified
> printing format, code re-org and broken to more functions.
> patch 2 - convert all debug prints to use the dprintk macro and
> consolidate format of all prints (e.g. "bonding: Error:
> ...").
> patch 3 - death of typedef. eliminate bonding_t/slave_t types and
> consolidate casting.
> patch 4 - remove dead code, old compatibility stuff and redundant
> checks.
I'm a bit concerned about doing some of this stuff in the 2.4 series. That
compatibility stuff is there for a reason, and was set to be removed in
2.6. Perhaps we shouldn't be doing stuff this drastic until 2.6 because of
the risk of breaking users.
Chad
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