From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] bonding: fix module multiple load issues Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:22:39 +0100 Message-ID: <45B1FB7F.4060204@trash.net> References: <200701200215.l0K2FF22021615@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Garzik , mitch.a.williams@intel.com Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:48342 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965253AbXATLWt (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:22:49 -0500 To: Jay Vosburgh In-Reply-To: <200701200215.l0K2FF22021615@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jay Vosburgh wrote: > Patch 1: fix device name allocation error > Patch 2: fix error check in sysfs creation > Patch 3: modify sysfs support to permit multiple loads > Patch 4: update version number > > This patch series should resolve whatever problems there are > with the logic to load the module multiple times. This code changed > during the introduction of sysfs, and some recent tightening of the > sysfs creation code (checking for duplicates) broke that. > > The multiple load logic is used primarily by the initscripts and > sysconfig packages, to automatically configure multiple bonding > interfaces at boot time. > > Originally reported by Patrick McHardy . Confirmed to fix the problems I was seeing, thanks.