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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Subject: bonding: cannot remove certain named devices
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:48:57 -0400
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2.6.17-rc4+.

Trivial example:

# modprobe bonding (creates bond0)
# ip link set bond0 name "a b"
# echo "-a b" > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters 
bonding: unable to delete non-existent bond a
bash: echo: write error: No such device

Bill