Re: [RFC PATCH net] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces

2019-03-04 Thread si-wei liu
Sorry for multiple sends. The patch is exactly same. I added a few people who were missing int the cc lines in the first attemt. And corrected the subject line in the second attempt. -Siwei On 3/4/2019 6:04 PM, David Miller wrote: Why did you send this three times? What's different in each

Re: [RFC PATCH net] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces

2019-03-04 Thread David Miller
Why did you send this three times? What's different in each of these copies?

Re: [RFC PATCH net] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces

2019-03-04 Thread si-wei liu
Please disregard patch emails previously sent with similar subject. The patch target is set to net rather than net-next. Any discussion or comment around this patch should go after this email. -Siwei On 3/4/2019 4:53 PM, Si-Wei Liu wrote: When a netdev appears through hot plug then gets ensl

[RFC PATCH net] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces

2019-03-04 Thread Si-Wei Liu
When a netdev appears through hot plug then gets enslaved by a failover master that is already up and running, the slave will be opened right away after getting enslaved. Today there's a race that userspace (udev) may fail to rename the slave if the kernel (net_failover) opens the slave earlier tha