RE: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-03 Thread Jari Takkala
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 17:24, Jay Vosburgh wrote: What advantage does this have over: # echo +bond5 /sys/class/net/bonding_masters which will create a new bonding master for the already-loaded driver? The advantage is that you can load multiple instances of the

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-03 Thread Jari Takkala
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 16:56, Randy Dunlap wrote: You could (should) make ifnum be unsigned int and then use module_param(ifnum, uint, 0); and then ... then this block is mostly useless since ifnum cannot be 0. And how could it ever be INT_MAX (when ifnum was an int)? If ifnum

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-03 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Jari Takkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 17:24, Jay Vosburgh wrote: What advantage does this have over: # echo +bond5 /sys/class/net/bonding_masters which will create a new bonding master for the already-loaded driver? The advantage is that you can

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-03 Thread Jari Takkala
On Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:04, Jay Vosburgh wrote: In our startup scripts we need to be able to ensure that the interface name is consistent across reboots. Sometimes bond1 may be brought up before bond0 and it may have different options (requiring a different instance of the bonding

[PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-02 Thread Jari Takkala
Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the bonding driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding driver and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example, if the user wishes to create a bond5 interface they can type

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:20:48 -0500 Jari Takkala wrote: Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the bonding driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding driver and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example, if the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23.12] net/bonding: option to specify initial bond interface number

2008-01-02 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Jari Takkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the bonding driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding driver and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example, if the user wishes to create a