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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 33 |
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 63df2262d41a..fb8258ebc577 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -205,20 +205,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -What: Compaq touchscreen device emulation -When: Oct 2007 -Files: drivers/input/tsdev.c -Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001. - tslib is a userspace library which does anything tsdev can do and - much more besides in userspace where this code belongs. There is no - longer any need for tsdev and applications should have converted to - use tslib by now. - The name "tsdev" is also extremely confusing and lots of people have - it loaded when they don't need/use it. -Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> - ---------------------------- - What: i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers When: September 2007 Why: Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index fdd6dbcf864e..085e4a095eaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1890,9 +1890,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<sb_io>,<sb_irq>,<sb_dma>,<mpu_io>,<mpu_irq> - tsdev.xres= [TS] Horizontal screen resolution. - tsdev.yres= [TS] Vertical screen resolution. - turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] TurboGraFX parallel port interface Format: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 1da566630831..11340625e363 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -281,6 +281,39 @@ downdelay will be rounded down to the nearest multiple. The default value is 0. +fail_over_mac + + Specifies whether active-backup mode should set all slaves to + the same MAC address (the traditional behavior), or, when + enabled, change the bond's MAC address when changing the + active interface (i.e., fail over the MAC address itself). + + Fail over MAC is useful for devices that cannot ever alter + their MAC address, or for devices that refuse incoming + broadcasts with their own source MAC (which interferes with + the ARP monitor). + + The down side of fail over MAC is that every device on the + network must be updated via gratuitous ARP, vs. just updating + a switch or set of switches (which often takes place for any + traffic, not just ARP traffic, if the switch snoops incoming + traffic to update its tables) for the traditional method. If + the gratuitous ARP is lost, communication may be disrupted. + + When fail over MAC is used in conjuction with the mii monitor, + devices which assert link up prior to being able to actually + transmit and receive are particularly susecptible to loss of + the gratuitous ARP, and an appropriate updelay setting may be + required. + + A value of 0 disables fail over MAC, and is the default. A + value of 1 enables fail over MAC. This option is enabled + automatically if the first slave added cannot change its MAC + address. This option may be modified via sysfs only when no + slaves are present in the bond. + + This option was added in bonding version 3.2.0. + lacp_rate Option specifying the rate in which we'll ask our link partner |