On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:27, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > drivers/net/bonding.c has #include <limits.h>, exposing the kernel to
> > user space dependencies. It must be removed.
> >
> > I could not find a maintainer for this beast so cc'ed to seevral users
> > in the changelog.
Here's a bonding patch against 2.4.15-pre4 which:
1. removes the limits.h include
2. fixes the compiler warning about #include <linux/malloc.h>
3. Fixes several SMP race conditions
4. Fixes a deadlock when hotswapping an enslaved ethernet device
I wasn't sure whether or not to send it to Linus, Alan, or lk so I sent
it to all 3.
So that everybody on the list knows, there's a lot of changes that just
went into the bonding driver. These have been accumulating over time as
people from IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Monta Vista, and other companies have been
working on enhancements in the High Availability area. I suggest any
interested parties read Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.
Also, this bonding driver *SHOULD* be backwards compatible with the old
one--- meaning you shouldn't need to recompile ifenslave or pass any
module parameters unless you want to use any of the new features.
However, if anybody has any problems with this, please email
bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Patches will also be accepted. :)
The new ifenslave is also available in
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c, if you want to use it.
Chad
-- Chad N. Tindel <ctindel@cup.hp.com> Software Engineer Hewlett Packard, Cupertino (408) 447-4230
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