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Matt LaPlante
d91958815d Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Jay Vosburgh
b8a9787edd bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zero
Permit bonding to function rationally if max_bonds is set to
zero.  This will load the module, but create no master devices (which can
be created via sysfs).

	Requires some change to bond_create_sysfs; currently, the
netdev sysfs directory is determined from the first bonding device created,
but this is no longer possible.  Instead, an interface from net/core is
created to create and destroy files in net_class.

	Based on a patch submitted by Phil Oester <kernel@linuxaces.com>.
Modified by Jay Vosburgh to fix the sysfs issue mentioned above and to
update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-18 00:00:04 -04:00
Jay Vosburgh
b59f9f74c4 bonding: Rework / fix multiple gratuitous ARP support
Support for sending multiple gratuitous ARPs during failovers
was added by commit:

commit 7893b2491a
Author: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Date:   Sat May 17 21:10:12 2008 -0700

    bonding: Send more than one gratuitous ARP when slave takes over

	This change modifies that support to remove duplicated code,
add support for ARP monitor (the original only supported miimon), clear
the grat ARP counter in bond_close (lest a later "ifconfig up" immediately
start spewing ARPs), and add documentation for the module parameter.

	Also updated driver version to 3.3.0.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-18 00:00:04 -04:00
Jay Vosburgh
3915c1e863 bonding: Add "follow" option to fail_over_mac
Add a "follow" selection for fail_over_mac.  This option
causes the MAC address to move from slave to slave as the active
slave changes.  This is in addition to the existing fail_over_mac option
that causes the bond's MAC address to change during failover.

	This new option is useful for devices that cannot tolerate
multiple ports using the same MAC address simultaneously, either
because it confuses them or incurs a performance penalty (as is the
case with some LPAR-aware multiport devices).  Because the MAC of the
bond itself does not change, the "follow" option is slightly more
reliable during failover and doesn't change the MAC of the bond during
operation.

	This patch requires a previous ARP monitor change to properly
handle RTNL during failovers.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-22 06:34:29 -04:00
Jay Vosburgh
9a6c686799 [BONDING]: Documentation update
Update the bonding documentation: more discussion on
initialization and configuration, changes to discussion of packet
reordering in balance-rr, update some out of date information.

	Based in part on input from Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
and Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:03:48 -08:00
Jay Vosburgh
6f6652be18 bonding: Add new layer2+3 hash for xor/802.3ad modes
Add new hash for balance-xor and 802.3ad modes.  Originally
 submitted by "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>; modified by
 Jay Vosburgh to move setting of hash policy out of line, tweak the
 documentation update and add version update to 3.2.2.

	Glenn's original comment follows:

Included is a patch for a new xmit_hash_policy for the bonding driver
that selects slaves based on MAC and IP information.  This is a middle
ground between what currently exists in the layer2 only policy and the
layer3+4 policy.  This policy strives to be fully 802.3ad compliant by
transmitting every packet of any particular flow over the same link.
As documented the layer3+4 policy is not fully compliant for extreme
cases such as ip fragmentation, so this policy is a nice compromise
for environments that require full compliance but desire more than the
layer2 only policy.

Signed-off-by: "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-07 15:00:32 -05:00
Jay Vosburgh
dd957c57c5 net/bonding: Optionally allow ethernet slaves to keep own MAC
Update the "don't change MAC of slaves" functionality added in
previous changes to be a generic option, rather than something tied to
IB devices, as it's occasionally useful for regular ethernet devices as
well.

	Adds "fail_over_mac" option (which is automatically enabled for IB
slaves), applicable only to active-backup mode.

	Includes documentation update.

	Updates bonding driver version to 3.2.0.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-15 14:20:46 -04:00
Alexandra N. Kossovsky
9198d2220d [NET]: bonding documentation fix for multiple bonding interfaces
Fix bonding driver documentation for the case of multiple bonding interfaces.

Signed-off-by: "Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:40:13 -07:00
Paolo Ornati
670e9f34ee Documentation: remove duplicated words
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
Jay Vosburgh
f5b2b966f0 [PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.

	The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25 20:08:09 -04:00
Auke Kok
6224e01dcc [DOC] Update bonding documentation with sysfs info
Bonding documentation needed an update to include sysfs specific
information. This patch adds information on how to change bonding
parameters at runtime using the sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-06-08 11:15:35 -07:00
Eric Paris
8fad6939af [PATCH] update bonding.txt to not show ip address on slaves
ifenslave, as of abi version 2, does not set the ip address on the slave
interfaces.  The documentation example however still shows that the
ensalved interfaces should have the same IP as the master.  The patch
simply removes the lines from the example which should no longer appear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

 bonding.txt |    2 --
 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-09 10:48:09 -05:00
John W. Linville
4cac018ae3 [PATCH] bonding: fix typos in bonding documentation
Fix some simple typos in the bonding.txt file.  The typos are in areas
relating to loading the bonding driver multiple times.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-18 22:26:01 -04:00
Tobias Klauser
d533f67185 [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
        - double "the"
        - Several misspellings of function/functionality
        - infomation
        - memeory
        - Recieved
        - wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Jay Vosburgh
00354cfb92 [PATCH] bonding: documentation update
Contains general updates (additional configuration info, hopefully
better examples, updated some out of date info, and a bonus pass
through ispell to banish the "paramters.") and info specific to
gratuitous ARP and xmit policy functionality already in 2.6.13-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-31 00:46:48 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00