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Commit 1ba9ac7c authored by Nicolas de Pesloüan's avatar Nicolas de Pesloüan Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarNicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c159d30c

Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

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	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