From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755067AbZFKMoq (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:44:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751155AbZFKMoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:44:39 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49855 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750856AbZFKMoi (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:44:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090611.054441.84283528.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@vyatta.com Cc: kaber@trash.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix multiple module load problem From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090609230754.77fb1e71@nehalam> References: <4752.1244564082@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> <4A2E8D62.6090004@trash.net> <20090609230754.77fb1e71@nehalam> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 23:07:54 -0700 > Some users still load bond module multiple times to create bonding > devices. This accidentally was broken by a later patch about > the time sysfs was fixed. According to Jay, it was broken > by: > commit b8a9787eddb0e4665f31dd1d64584732b2b5d051 > Author: Jay Vosburgh > Date: Fri Jun 13 18:12:04 2008 -0700 > > bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zero > > Note: sysfs and procfs still produce WARN() messages when this is done > so the sysfs method is the recommended API. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied, and queued up for -stable, thanks!