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| author | Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> | 2011-12-26 13:35:24 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-12-26 20:09:35 -0500 |
| commit | 1ba9ac7c35b30d6b958a30240e21ddaea8d21b35 (patch) | |
| tree | 942143e924ea4d11d120b614691b90ee540ba15f /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | c159d30c59dc84934f8ef46f934ce1232c558ecd (diff) | |
bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.
v2, based on Jay's review.
I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 91df678fb7f..080ad26690a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -196,6 +196,23 @@ or, for backwards compatibility, the option value. E.g., The parameters are as follows: +active_slave + + Specifies the new active slave for modes that support it + (active-backup, balance-alb and balance-tlb). Possible values + are the name of any currently enslaved interface, or an empty + string. If a name is given, the slave and its link must be up in order + to be selected as the new active slave. If an empty string is + specified, the current active slave is cleared, and a new active + slave is selected automatically. + + Note that this is only available through the sysfs interface. No module + parameter by this name exists. + + The normal value of this option is the name of the currently + active slave, or the empty string if there is no active slave or + the current mode does not use an active slave. + ad_select Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. The |