Jay, I have tested with a standard bootup script - which amongst other things brings down the bond and gives it a new MAC before bringing it up.
What do you wanna do with the patch? I know if it sits with me it will be lost. cheers, jamal On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 16:22 -0400, jamal wrote: > On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 11:50 -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > > > > Do the initscript and sysconfig packages (/sbin/ifup, ifdown, > > that stuff in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, etc) do the right thing > > with this change? > > > > I havent seen issues so far. > > > If memory serves, the initscripts will down the bond during > > setup; I'm not sure if there is any dependency on that action releasing > > all (possibly preexisting) slaves. > > > > The one i have experimented with has no issues - but you may be right > some people depend on this behavior at shutdown. > > > I don't have a big problem with this, but I'm a little concerned > > that there may be dependencies on the existing behavior. > > I could add a module parameter that restores old behavior when asked to > and we keep that for a while and have it print a warning message. > The other alternative is just release it and see if someone complains. > > cheers, > jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
