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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Avoid problems with bonding and device rename
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:03:16 -0700

> See: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10698
> 
> The use of /sys/class/net/bonding_masters was a poor ABI choice
> that now we have to live with. Best choice is to just block other
> usage of that name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

I think sysfs is way too noisy in this case and we should
handle the sysfs add failure just like any other -EEXIST case.