From patchwork Mon Dec 26 12:19:15 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: =?utf-8?q?Nicolas_de_Peslo=C3=BCan?= X-Patchwork-Id: 133233 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC856B7038 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:27:20 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755221Ab1LZM1P (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:27:15 -0500 Received: from smtp09.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.131]:16418 "EHLO smtp.smtpout.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754802Ab1LZM1P (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:27:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 471 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:27:14 EST Received: from localhost.localdomain ([86.208.15.31]) by mwinf5d32 with ME id DoKK1i00B0gCeMA03oKK8M; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:19:22 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20de=20Peslo=C3=BCan?= To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20de=20Peslo=C3=BCan?= , Jay Vosburgh , Andy Gospodarek Subject: [PATCH] bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry. Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:19:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1324901955-5816-1-git-send-email-nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.7.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan cc: Jay Vosburgh cc: Andy Gospodarek --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 91df678..83b44c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -196,6 +196,20 @@ or, for backwards compatibility, the option value. E.g., The parameters are as follows: +active_slave + + Specifies the active slave for modes that support it (active-backup, + balance-alb and balance-tlb). The possible values are one of the + currently enslaved slaves. The selected slave must be up and the + underlying link must be up too. + + Note that this is only available through the sysfs interface. No module + parameter by that name exists. + + The default value is empty (no active slave). It will automatically be + set every time an active slave is selected by normal bonding operation. + The current active slave can be read from this sysfs entry. + ad_select Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. The