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| author | Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> | 2013-05-24 00:59:47 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-05-27 23:27:14 -0700 |
| commit | 53edee2cfbcd869371cb720f1c00d85ba7f2566c (patch) | |
| tree | 11147a5928dc514afa6df227fddc2d2b6c33b311 | |
| parent | 1a9561a3bd0faaffa14dc20430805a46e311d00e (diff) | |
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bonding: allow xmit hash policy change while bond dev is up
Since the xmit_hash_policy pointer is always valid and not dependent on
anything, we can change it while the bond device is up and running. The
only downside would be the out of order packets but that is a small price
to pay.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c index d7434e0a610e..3d269a52789c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c @@ -383,20 +383,12 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_xmit_hash(struct device *d, int new_value, ret = count; struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d); - if (bond->dev->flags & IFF_UP) { - pr_err("%s: Interface is up. Unable to update xmit policy.\n", - bond->dev->name); - ret = -EPERM; - goto out; - } - new_value = bond_parse_parm(buf, xmit_hashtype_tbl); if (new_value < 0) { pr_err("%s: Ignoring invalid xmit hash policy value %.*s.\n", bond->dev->name, (int)strlen(buf) - 1, buf); ret = -EINVAL; - goto out; } else { bond->params.xmit_policy = new_value; bond_set_mode_ops(bond, bond->params.mode); @@ -404,7 +396,7 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_xmit_hash(struct device *d, bond->dev->name, xmit_hashtype_tbl[new_value].modename, new_value); } -out: + return ret; } static DEVICE_ATTR(xmit_hash_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, |