Commit 5c2a9644 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by David S. Miller

bonding: update documentation section after dev->trans_start removal

Drivers that use LLTX need to update trans_start of the netdev_queue.
(Most drivers don't use LLTX; stack does this update if .ndo_start_xmit
 returned TX_OK).
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5a36b68b
...@@ -1880,8 +1880,8 @@ or more peers on the local network. ...@@ -1880,8 +1880,8 @@ or more peers on the local network.
The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify
that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to
date the last receive time, dev->last_rx, and transmit start time, date the last receive time, dev->last_rx. Drivers that use NETIF_F_LLTX
dev->trans_start. If these are not updated by the driver, then the flag must also update netdev_queue->trans_start. If they do not, then the
ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and
those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc) those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc)
shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that
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