On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:37:28AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Getting rid of as much usage of "slave" as we can here, without breaking > any user-facing API. > > Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosbu...@gmail.com> > Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfal...@gmail.com> > Cc: Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > Cc: Thomas Davis <tada...@lbl.gov> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> > --- [...] > diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c > index 1f602bcf10bd..8e2edebeb61a 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c > +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c [...] > @@ -143,12 +143,12 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Mode of operation; 0 for > balance-rr, " > module_param(primary, charp, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(primary, "Primary network device to use"); > module_param(primary_reselect, charp, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(primary_reselect, "Reselect primary slave " > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(primary_reselect, "Reselect primary link " > "once it comes up; " > "0 for always (default), " > "1 for only if speed of primary is " > "better, " > - "2 for only on active slave " > + "2 for only on active link " > "failure"); > module_param(lacp_rate, charp, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(lacp_rate, "LACPDU tx rate to request from 802.3ad partner; > " > @@ -176,24 +176,24 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(arp_validate, "validate src/dst of ARP > probes; " > module_param(arp_all_targets, charp, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(arp_all_targets, "fail on any/all arp targets timeout; 0 > for any (default), 1 for all"); > module_param(fail_over_mac, charp, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(fail_over_mac, "For active-backup, do not set all slaves to > " > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(fail_over_mac, "For active-backup, do not set all links to " > "the same MAC; 0 for none (default), " > "1 for active, 2 for follow"); > -module_param(all_slaves_active, int, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(all_slaves_active, "Keep all frames received on an > interface " > - "by setting active flag for all slaves; " > +module_param(all_links_active, int, 0); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(all_links_active, "Keep all frames received on an interface > " > + "by setting active flag for all links; " > "0 for never (default), 1 for always."); > module_param(resend_igmp, int, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(resend_igmp, "Number of IGMP membership reports to send on " > "link failure"); > -module_param(packets_per_slave, int, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(packets_per_slave, "Packets to send per slave in balance-rr > " > - "mode; 0 for a random slave, 1 packet per " > - "slave (default), >1 packets per slave."); > +module_param(packets_per_link, int, 0); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(packets_per_link, "Packets to send per link in balance-rr " > + "mode; 0 for a random link, 1 packet per " > + "link (default), >1 packets per link."); > module_param(lp_interval, uint, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(lp_interval, "The number of seconds between instances where > " > "the bonding driver sends learning packets to " > - "each slaves peer switch. The default is 1."); > + "each links peer switch. The default is 1.");
Even if the module parameters are deprecated and extremely inconvenient as a mean of bonding configuration, I would say changing their names would still count as "breaking the userspace". Michal