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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2016-05-04 23:51:47 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-05-05 00:07:13 +0300
commit5c2a9644d05e98b3c06b073351cd363ff91b22e8 (patch)
treeb4a2eaf172e87490268d6b291830932cdf91270d
parent5a36b68b670ebdf19eaedd4f859810293a3d1dc1 (diff)
downloadlinux-5c2a9644d05e98b3c06b073351cd363ff91b22e8.tar.xz
bonding: update documentation section after dev->trans_start removal
Drivers that use LLTX need to update trans_start of the netdev_queue. (Most drivers don't use LLTX; stack does this update if .ndo_start_xmit returned TX_OK). Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/bonding.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 334b49ef02d1..57f52cdce32e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -1880,8 +1880,8 @@ or more peers on the local network.
The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify
that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to
-date the last receive time, dev->last_rx, and transmit start time,
-dev->trans_start. If these are not updated by the driver, then the
+date the last receive time, dev->last_rx. Drivers that use NETIF_F_LLTX
+flag must also update netdev_queue->trans_start. If they do not, then the
ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and
those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc)
shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that