Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:14:08 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [Bonding-devel] BUG: bonding module can only be loaded once |
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Jay Vosburgh wrote: > Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 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.
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