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

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:08:53AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:06:37AM CEST, jiri@resnulli.us wrote:
> >Tue, May 22, 2018 at 04:06:18AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@intel.com wrote:
> >>Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
> >>failover infrastructure.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
> >
> >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?

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