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| author | Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> | 2018-05-14 14:48:10 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-05-16 12:15:11 -0400 |
| commit | 1386c36b30388f46a95100924bfcae75160db715 (patch) | |
| tree | db9d63a1cb1d8afe910fc0bbf24ad16dd3fdf887 /Documentation | |
| parent | e79c1055749e3183a2beee04a24da378623329c5 (diff) | |
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bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link state
In a mixed environment it may be difficult to tell if your hardware
support carrier, if it does not it can always report true. With a new
use_carrier option of 2, we can check both carrier and link status
sequentially, instead of one or the other
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index c13214d073a4..86d07fbb592d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -828,8 +828,8 @@ use_carrier MII / ETHTOOL ioctl method to determine the link state. A value of 1 enables the use of netif_carrier_ok(), a value of - 0 will use the deprecated MII / ETHTOOL ioctls. The default - value is 1. + 0 will use the deprecated MII / ETHTOOL ioctls. A value of 2 + will check both. The default value is 1. xmit_hash_policy |