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authorOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>2008-06-13 18:12:00 -0700
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2008-06-17 23:59:41 -0400
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net/core: add NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER event
Add NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER event to be used in a successive patch by bonding to announce fail-over for the active-backup mode through the netdev events notifier chain mechanism. Such an event can be of use for the RDMA CM (communication manager) to let native RDMA ULPs (eg NFS-RDMA, iSER) always be aligned with the IP stack, in the sense that they use the same ports/links as the stack does. More usages can be done to allow monitoring tools based on netlink events being aware to bonding fail-over. Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 68d8df0..0e45742 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -961,6 +961,12 @@ void netdev_state_change(struct net_device *dev)
}
}
+void netdev_bonding_change(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER, dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_bonding_change);
+
/**
* dev_load - load a network module
* @net: the applicable net namespace