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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index d7434e0..3d269a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -383,20 +383,12 @@
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 @@
bond->dev->name,
xmit_hashtype_tbl[new_value].modename, new_value);
}
-out:
+
return ret;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(xmit_hash_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,