.flags = BOND_OPTFLAG_RAWVAL,
                .set = bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set
        },
+       [BOND_OPT_DOWNDELAY] = {
+               .id = BOND_OPT_DOWNDELAY,
+               .name = "downdelay",
+               .desc = "Delay before considering link down, in milliseconds",
+               .values = bond_intmax_tbl,
+               .set = bond_option_downdelay_set
+       },
        { }
 };
 
        return 0;
 }
 
-int bond_option_downdelay_set(struct bonding *bond, int downdelay)
+int bond_option_downdelay_set(struct bonding *bond,
+                             struct bond_opt_value *newval)
 {
-       if (!(bond->params.miimon)) {
+       if (!bond->params.miimon) {
                pr_err("%s: Unable to set down delay as MII monitoring is disabled\n",
                       bond->dev->name);
                return -EPERM;
        }
-
-       if (downdelay < 0) {
-               pr_err("%s: Invalid down delay value %d not in range %d-%d; rejected.\n",
-                      bond->dev->name, downdelay, 0, INT_MAX);
-               return -EINVAL;
-       } else {
-               if ((downdelay % bond->params.miimon) != 0) {
-                       pr_warn("%s: Warning: down delay (%d) is not a multiple of miimon (%d), delay rounded to %d ms\n",
-                               bond->dev->name, downdelay,
-                               bond->params.miimon,
-                               (downdelay / bond->params.miimon) *
-                               bond->params.miimon);
-               }
-               bond->params.downdelay = downdelay / bond->params.miimon;
-               pr_info("%s: Setting down delay to %d.\n",
-                       bond->dev->name,
-                       bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon);
+       if ((newval->value % bond->params.miimon) != 0) {
+               pr_warn("%s: Warning: down delay (%llu) is not a multiple of miimon (%d), delay rounded to %llu ms\n",
+                       bond->dev->name, newval->value,
+                       bond->params.miimon,
+                       (newval->value / bond->params.miimon) *
+                       bond->params.miimon);
        }
+       bond->params.downdelay = newval->value / bond->params.miimon;
+       pr_info("%s: Setting down delay to %d.\n",
+               bond->dev->name,
+               bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon);
 
        return 0;
 }
 
                                       struct device_attribute *attr,
                                       const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
-       int new_value, ret;
        struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
+       int ret;
 
-       if (sscanf(buf, "%d", &new_value) != 1) {
-               pr_err("%s: no down delay value specified.\n", bond->dev->name);
-               return -EINVAL;
-       }
-
-       if (!rtnl_trylock())
-               return restart_syscall();
-
-       ret = bond_option_downdelay_set(bond, new_value);
+       ret = bond_opt_tryset_rtnl(bond, BOND_OPT_DOWNDELAY, (char *)buf);
        if (!ret)
                ret = count;
 
-       rtnl_unlock();
        return ret;
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(downdelay, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
 
 int bond_option_active_slave_set(struct bonding *bond, struct net_device *slave_dev);
 int bond_option_miimon_set(struct bonding *bond, int miimon);
 int bond_option_updelay_set(struct bonding *bond, int updelay);
-int bond_option_downdelay_set(struct bonding *bond, int downdelay);
 int bond_option_use_carrier_set(struct bonding *bond, int use_carrier);
 int bond_option_arp_ip_target_add(struct bonding *bond, __be32 target);
 int bond_option_arp_ip_target_rem(struct bonding *bond, __be32 target);