net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave netdevices not supporting set_mac_address()

This patch allows for enslaving netdevices which do not support
the set_mac_address() function. In that case the bond mac address is the one
of the active slave, where remote peers are notified on the mac address
(neighbour) change by Gratuitous ARP sent by bonding when fail-over occurs
(this is already done by the bonding code).

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
index 2a6af7d23728..5011ba9e4661 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ struct bonding {
         struct   timer_list mii_timer;
         struct   timer_list arp_timer;
         s8       kill_timers;
+        s8       do_set_mac_addr;
         struct   net_device_stats stats;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
         struct   proc_dir_entry *proc_entry;