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authorMoni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>2009-09-15 05:37:40 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-15 05:37:40 -0400
commit75c78500ddad74b229cd0691496b8549490496a2 (patch)
tree5249219d68627421e4717c4e8f03f8b4bbad2e92 /include/linux/notifier.h
parent481a8199142c050b72bff8a1956a49fd0a75bbe0 (diff)
bonding: remap muticast addresses without using dev_close() and dev_open()
This patch fixes commit e36b9d16c6a6d0f59803b3ef04ff3c22c3844c10. The approach there is to call dev_close()/dev_open() whenever the device type is changed in order to remap the device IP multicast addresses to HW multicast addresses. This approach suffers from 2 drawbacks: *. It assumes tha the device is UP when calling dev_close(), or otherwise dev_close() has no affect. It is worth to mention that initscripts (Redhat) and sysconfig (Suse) doesn't act the same in this matter. *. dev_close() has other side affects, like deleting entries from the routing table, which might be unnecessary. The fix here is to directly remap the IP multicast addresses to HW multicast addresses for a bonding device that changes its type, and nothing else. Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h
index 81bc252dc8ac..44428d247dbe 100644
--- a/include/linux/notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/notifier.h
@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
199#define NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE 0x000B 199#define NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE 0x000B
200#define NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER 0x000C 200#define NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER 0x000C
201#define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D 201#define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D
202#define NETDEV_BONDING_OLDTYPE 0x000E
203#define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F
202 204
203#define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ 205#define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */
204#define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN 206#define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN