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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c index ced9ed8f995..8e317e11553 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c @@ -1372,6 +1372,21 @@ int bond_create_sysfs(void) return -ENODEV; ret = class_create_file(netdev_class, &class_attr_bonding_masters); + /* + * Permit multiple loads of the module by ignoring failures to + * create the bonding_masters sysfs file. Bonding devices + * created by second or subsequent loads of the module will + * not be listed in, or controllable by, bonding_masters, but + * will have the usual "bonding" sysfs directory. + * + * This is done to preserve backwards compatibility for + * initscripts/sysconfig, which load bonding multiple times to + * configure multiple bonding devices. + */ + if (ret == -EEXIST) { + netdev_class = NULL; + return 0; + } return ret; |