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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2005-11-22 14:56:32 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-11-22 14:56:32 -0800
commite6d184e33109010412ad1d59719af74755a935f4 (patch)
tree50875ca890857b39e8ea4b8521069793d75f0252 /Documentation
parent00cb277a4a1fb76aafb2fb28aa99f30546e619c5 (diff)
[NET]: Fix ifenslave to not fail on lack of IP information
Patch to ifenslave so that under older ABI versions, a failure to propogate ip information from master to slave does not result in a filure to enslave the slave device. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c9
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
index f315d20d386..545447ac503 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
@@ -693,13 +693,7 @@ static int enslave(char *master_ifname, char *slave_ifname)
/* Older bonding versions would panic if the slave has no IP
* address, so get the IP setting from the master.
*/
- res = set_if_addr(master_ifname, slave_ifname);
- if (res) {
- fprintf(stderr,
- "Slave '%s': Error: set address failed\n",
- slave_ifname);
- return res;
- }
+ set_if_addr(master_ifname, slave_ifname);
} else {
res = clear_if_addr(slave_ifname);
if (res) {
@@ -1085,7 +1079,6 @@ static int set_if_addr(char *master_ifname, char *slave_ifname)
slave_ifname, ifra[i].req_name,
strerror(saved_errno));
- return res;
}
ipaddr = ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data;