Re: [PATCH net-next v11 2/5] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework

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Tue, May 22, 2018 at 03:12:40PM CEST, mst@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:08:53AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:06:37AM CEST, jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >Tue, May 22, 2018 at 04:06:18AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >>Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
>> >>failover infrastructure.
>> >>
>> >>Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >In previous patchset versions, the common code did
>> >netdev_rx_handler_register() and netdev_upper_dev_link() etc
>> >(netvsc_vf_join()). Now, this is still done in netvsc. Why?
>> >
>> >This should be part of the common "failover" code.
>> >
>> 
>> Also note that in the current patchset you use IFF_FAILOVER flag for
>> master, yet for the slave you use IFF_SLAVE. That is wrong.
>> IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE should be used.
>
>Or drop IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE and set both IFF_FAILOVER and IFF_SLAVE?

No. IFF_SLAVE is for bonding.
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