Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: 2011-03-16 19:58:00
From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:05:21 -0400
Only slaves that are up should transmit netpoll frames, so there is no
need to check to see if a slave is up before enabling netpoll on it.
This resolves a reported failure on active-backup bonds where a slave
interface is down when netpoll was enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Tested-by: WANG Cong <redacted>