Commit 7e594425 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] bonding alias revert and documentation fix

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Jeff Garzik disliked the bonding driver knowing it was called "bond0".
Remove that alias, and revert documentation.
parent 69b848dd
...@@ -74,8 +74,13 @@ To install ifenslave.c, do: ...@@ -74,8 +74,13 @@ To install ifenslave.c, do:
Bond Configuration Bond Configuration
================== ==================
In Linux kernels 2.6 and above, the module creates its own "bond?" alias, so You will need to add at least the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf
any access to eg. bond0 will load the bonding module. so the bonding driver will automatically load when the bond0 interface is
configured. Refer to the modprobe.conf manual page for specific modprobe.conf
syntax details. The Module Parameters section of this document describes each
bonding driver parameter.
alias bond0 bonding
Use standard distribution techniques to define the bond0 network interface. For Use standard distribution techniques to define the bond0 network interface. For
example, on modern Red Hat distributions, create an ifcfg-bond0 file in example, on modern Red Hat distributions, create an ifcfg-bond0 file in
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...@@ -4711,7 +4711,6 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); ...@@ -4711,7 +4711,6 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRV_DESCRIPTION ", v" DRV_VERSION); MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRV_DESCRIPTION ", v" DRV_VERSION);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Thomas Davis, tadavis@lbl.gov and many others"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Thomas Davis, tadavis@lbl.gov and many others");
MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE("most ethernet devices"); MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE("most ethernet devices");
MODULE_ALIAS("bond?");
/* /*
* Local variables: * Local variables:
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