Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [SET 2][PATCH 2/8][bonding] Propagating master'ssettings toslaves

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:31, Laurent DENIEL wrote:

But I agree that it is interesting to do some stuff at user land, and if 
the bonding had an option to disable the automatic failover policy, 
this could be implemented with trigger towards user land application that 
could use an ioctl call to switch to the appropriate NIC according to

You spoilt otherwise sane text by mentioning ioctl;-> 

But the fast and simple failover policy shall remain in kernel code.

nod from here. Simple failover policies should stay in the kernel.

cheers,
jamal