Re: [V2 Patch net-next-2.6] netpoll: disable netpoll when enslavea device

[Cong Wang]

ä 2011å05æ19æ 21:25, Neil Horman åé:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:31:27AM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h
> > > index 621dfa1..3d82867 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/notifier.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/notifier.h
> > > @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
> > >   #define NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH 0x0011
> > >   #define NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE  0x0012
> > >   #define NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS	0x0013
> > > +#define NETDEV_ENSLAVE		0x0014
> > >
> > >   #define SYS_DOWN	0x0001	/* Notify of system down */
> > >   #define SYS_RESTART	SYS_DOWN
> >
> > Neil just noted the same concern I had -- the asymmetry between
> > NETDEV_ENSLAVE and NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE bothers me a bit.  I also
> > don't really like the followup patch that uses 'ENSLAVE' in the bridging
> > code when we typically use that language for bonding only.
> >
> > What about changing NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE to NETDEV_RELEASE and create
> > NETDEV_JOIN instead of NETDEV_ENSLAVE?  I would prefer that or something
> > else that might use more generic language that could be applied to all
> > for stacked interfaces.
> JOIN and RELEASE (or perhaps LEAVE) sounds good to me.

Thanks, Andy and Neil! I will rename them to JOIN and RELEASE.
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