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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] bonding: make device count build-time configurable
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Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> wrote:

>The devices can be created at run-time for quite some time already and the
>load-time device creation collides with attempts to create the device of
>the same name:
>
> # rmmod bonding
> # ip link add bond0 type bond
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists
>
>This is pretty much the same situation as was with the block loop devices
>which was solved by adding a build-time configuration that the
>distributions could use as they deem fit while keeping the default for
>compatibility.

I agree this is annoying, but I would expect distros to leave
this set to 1 (for backwards compatibility with scripts that "modprobe
bonding" then assume bond0 exists). This leaves the problem in place
for the vast majority of users.

Is there a reasonable way to resolve this that would actually
fix things for regular distro kernel users?

-J

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-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com

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