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

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:53:37 -0700

Jeff Garzik 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 ;)