Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752202AbXAZV7y (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:59:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752201AbXAZV7y (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:59:54 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:44771 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752171AbXAZV7v (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:59:51 -0500 Message-Id: <200701262158.l0QLwP22009461@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> To: Andy Gospodarek cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, michael.monnerie@it-management.at Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: ARP monitoring broken on x86_64 In-reply-to: <20070126144630.GA30601@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> References: <20070126144630.GA30601@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Comments: In-reply-to Andy Gospodarek message dated "Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:46:32 -0500." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.83; nmh 1.1-RC4; GNU Emacs 21.4.1 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:58:25 -0800 From: Jay Vosburgh Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 23 Andy Gospodarek wrote: >While working with the latest bonding code I noticed a nasty problem >that will prevent arp monitoring from always functioning correctly on >x86_64 systems. Comparing ints to longs and expecting reliable results >on x86_64 is a bad idea. With this patch, arp monitoring works correctly >again. > >This also needs to make its way into the 2.6.19 stable series. > >Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh -J --- -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/