Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] bonding: start slaves with link down for ARP monitor

From: Flavio Leitner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:19:12 -0300

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:02:06 +0200
Michal Kubecek <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Initialize slave device link state as down if ARP monitor is
> active and net_carrier_ok() returns zero. Also shift initial
> value of its last_arp_tx so that it doesn't immediately cause
> fake detection of "up" state.
> 
> When ARP monitoring is used, initializing the slave device with
> up link state can cause ARP monitor to detect link failure
> before the device is really up (with igb driver, this can take
> more than two seconds).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <[email-masked]>

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <[email-masked]>

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