From: Pawel Foremski <pjf@asn•pl>
To: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:12:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edgn1t$nrh$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200609012213.k81MDJZt008128@death.nxdomain.ibm.com
Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Add priv_flag to specifically identify bonding-involved devices. Needed
> because IFF_MASTER is an unreliable identifier (vlan interfaces above
> bonding will inherit IFF_MASTER). Misidentification of devices would
> cause notifier events for other devices to be erroneously processed by
> bonding, causing various havoc.
Just wanted to report that this patch solves a kernel oops on 2.6.17.11
while trying to change name of a VLAN device created on top of a bonding
one.
Thanks,
--
Pawel Foremski
pjf@asn•pl
--
VGER BF report: U 0.687767
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-04 8:15 UTC|newest]
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2006-09-01 22:13 [PATCH 6/7] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling Jay Vosburgh
2006-09-04 8:12 ` Pawel Foremski [this message]
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