Commit e05057f5 authored by Jay Vosburgh's avatar Jay Vosburgh Committed by Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] bonding: Update kconfig description

This patch updates the very-outdated Kconfig description for bonding.
Users reading the help text in menuconfig or xconfig would see text that
implied that bonding only supports static link aggregation, and required a
specific switch to make it work.  The new description mentions multiple
bonding modes and points the user to the bonding.txt documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
parent cbee2fc6
......@@ -47,16 +47,13 @@ config BONDING
---help---
Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
'Trunking' by Sun, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
If you have two Ethernet connections to some other computer, you can
make them behave like one double speed connection using this driver.
Naturally, this has to be supported at the other end as well, either
with a similar Bonding Linux driver, a Cisco 5500 switch or a
SunTrunking SunSoft driver.
The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
perfomance and high availability operation.
This is similar to the EQL driver, but it merges Ethernet segments
instead of serial lines.
Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
information.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called bonding.
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