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From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: lkundrak@v3.sk, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vfalico@gmail.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bonding: make device count build-time configurable
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:40:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn8qv5m4.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160112.154914.397367508465928770.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:49:14 -0500 (EST)")

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:19:49 +0100
>
>> It's still an improvement to let the distributions decide if they're
>> keeping "ip link add" broken or possibly affecting the scripts.
>
> That it is "broken" is your opinion.
>
> Document the behavior.  It is not broken if the user is told to be
> mindful of what devices are created by default.
>
> There is way too much downside to changing this.

Besides, distributions or admins can already change that behaviour if
they consider it "broken", using the existing module parameter:

 # echo "options bonding max_bonds=0" >/etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf
 # rmmod bonding
 # ip link add bond0 type bond
 (no error here)

This method should be well known and understood by most users, contrary
to some odd CONFIG_ build time setting.


Bjørn

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-12 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12 11:58 [PATCH 3/3] bonding: make device count build-time configurable Lubomir Rintel
2016-01-12 16:34 ` Jay Vosburgh
2016-01-12 17:19   ` Lubomir Rintel
2016-01-12 19:36     ` Jay Vosburgh
2016-01-12 20:49     ` David Miller
2016-01-12 21:40       ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2016-02-05 15:07         ` Lubomir Rintel
2016-01-12 20:45   ` David Miller

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