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bonding: allow xmit hash policy change while bond dev is up

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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>
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Nikolay Aleksandrov 2013-05-24 00:59:47 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 1a9561a3bd
commit 53edee2cfb
1 changed files with 1 additions and 9 deletions
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drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
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@ -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,