Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:16:32PM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
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>From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:24:48 -0800
>
>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:54:06 +0100
>> Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It's not desirable to be able to change the type of net_device in bond device if
>>> it's in use by bridge, or vlan, or so. At the moment, there is possible for
>>> example to have INFINIBAND bond type in bridge (by adding bond with eth type to
>>> a bridge first and then enslave INFINIBAND device).
>> 
>> Rather than building lots of back pointer dependencies, why not
>> have another netdevice notifier that allows other subsystems to
>> see the type change and reject it if they care? That way the code
>> would be more modular and expandable.
>
>Agreed.

Fair enough, I will rework this.

Thanks a lot guys for looking at this.

Jirka
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