Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] bonding: update the primary when slave name changed

From: Ding Tianhong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:20:45 +0800

On 2014/1/9 20:30, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:23:58PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> On 2014/1/9 19:46, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:36PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>>>> If the primary_slave's name changed, but the bond->prams.primay was
>>>> still using the old name, it is conflict with the meaning of the
>>>> primary, so update the primary when the slave change its name.
>>>
>>> Nope, the bonding parameter, which is set by the user, shouldn't change
>>> because of an interface name change.
>>>
>> Yes, I know what you mean, but it is not bug fix, just make it more better,
>> do not you feel it strange that the primary was different with primary_slave's name?
> 
> Yep, that's an issue - that's why there is the TODO. We shouldn't, though,
> change the primary param, but rather check if the slave (that changed name)
> is (already not) eligible for primary_slave.
> 

Ok，So，summarize your and my opinion, I think there are two ways to fix this:

1. just like my patch said.
2. check if the primary is not the primary_slave, make the primary_slave = NULL, this means
   the primary_slave is no valid.
3. ?? did you have any better ideas?

Regards
Ding 

>>
>> Regards
>> Ding
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <[email-masked]>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>>> index e06c445..de646e2 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>>> @@ -2860,9 +2860,19 @@ static int bond_slave_netdev_event(unsigned long event,
>>>>          */
>>>>         break;
>>>>     case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
>>>> -        /*
>>>> -         * TODO: handle changing the primary's name
>>>> +        /* if the primary's name changed,
>>>> +         * save the new name for primary.
>>>>          */
>>>> +        if (USES_PRIMARY(bond->params.mode) &&
>>>> +            bond->params.primary[0]) {
>>>> +            if (bond->primary_slave &&
>>>> +                strcmp(bond->params.primary,
>>>> +                   bond->primary_slave->dev->name)) {
>>>> +                strncpy(bond->params.primary,
>>>> +                    bond->primary_slave->dev->name,
>>>> +                    IFNAMSIZ);
>>>> +            }
>>>> +        }
>>>>         break;
>>>>     case NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE:
>>>>         bond_compute_features(bond);
>>>> -- 
>>>> 1.8.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
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