From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] BUG: bonding module can only be loaded once Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:14:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2EDEB0.2080006@trash.net> References: <20090608151127.70146505@nehalam> <200906091406.45463.arnd@arndb.de> <20090609080232.45f81833@nehalam> <4A2E80B3.6010600@trash.net> <4752.1244564082@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> <4A2E8D62.6090004@trash.net> <13521.1244568251@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sf.net, "David S. Miller" To: Jay Vosburgh Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:40635 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbZFIWOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:14:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <13521.1244568251@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jay Vosburgh wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> I'd expect its not the distros, but rather the applicances which might >> still be using this. I know a vendor I used to work for a couple of >> years ago just recently made the switch from 2.6.16 to a current kernel, >> and I'd expect that they are still using this (I can find out tommorrow >> if you want to know for sure). Vyatta likewise, I guess. > > Yes, I'd like to know for sure; thanks. I'll let you know. >>> If nobody has any heartburn at dropping support for multiple >>> bonding instances on old distros, I'm as happy as anybody to remove all >>> of the multiple load logic from bonding. There's been plenty of time >>> for transitioning from "multiple load" to sysfs. >> In my opinion it would need a feature-removal-schedule announcement. > > Yah, probably. The multiple load stuff was working fine as of, > oh, a year or two ago, so I wasn't worried so much about getting rid of > it. If it's causing problems, though, it's time for it to go (or be > scheduled to go in the not too distant future). Can't keep driving that > Ford Pinto forever. Well, if it has been broken for long enough, maybe we don't need a feature-removal-schedule warning.