I believe I see the race Michael refers to (tlb_choose_channel
may set head, which tlb_init_slave clears), although I was not able to
reproduce it.  I have updated his patch for the current netdev-2.6.git
tree and added a version update.  His original comment follows:

Our systems have been crashing during testing of PCI HotPlug
support in the various networking components.  We've faulted in
the bonding driver due to a bug in bond_alb.c:tlb_clear_slave()

In that routine, the last modification to the TLB hash table is
made without protection of the lock, allowing a race that can lead
tlb_choose_channel() to select an invalid table element.

	-J
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

No need to record this information in source code, its all in the git
repository, and kernel archives.

Minor spelling and whitespace corrections.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Explicitly clear RLB flag during ALB init.  This is needed for sysfs
support, since the bond mode can be changed at runtime via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Move memory allocations out of the spinlock during ALB init.  This gets
rid of a sleeping-inside-spinlock warning and accompanying stack dump.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Add the bond name to all error messages so we can tell which one is
complaining.  Also reformats some error messages to be more consistent.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
device into packet_type->func() as an argument.

It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In ALB mode, allow new slave to use bond's MAC address if the new
slave's MAC address is being used within the bond and no other slave
is using the bond's MAC address.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!