On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 11:50 -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:

> 
>       Do the initscript and sysconfig packages (/sbin/ifup, ifdown,
> that stuff in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, etc) do the right thing
> with this change?
> 

I havent seen issues so far.

>       If memory serves, the initscripts will down the bond during
> setup; I'm not sure if there is any dependency on that action releasing
> all (possibly preexisting) slaves.
> 

The one i have experimented with has no issues - but you may be right
some people depend on this behavior at shutdown.

>       I don't have a big problem with this, but I'm a little concerned
> that there may be dependencies on the existing behavior.

I could add a module parameter that restores old behavior when asked to
and we keep that for a while and have it print a warning message.
The other alternative is just release it and see if someone complains.

cheers,
jamal

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