bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link state

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / networking / bonding.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index c13214d..86d07fb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -828,8 +828,8 @@ use_carrier
        MII / ETHTOOL ioctl method to determine the link state.
 
        A value of 1 enables the use of netif_carrier_ok(), a value of
-       0 will use the deprecated MII / ETHTOOL ioctls.  The default
-       value is 1.
+       0 will use the deprecated MII / ETHTOOL ioctls. A value of 2
+       will check both.  The default value is 1.
 
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