[PATCH net-next] bonding: improve nl error msg when device can't be enslaved because of IFF_MASTER
From: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-08-16 10:08:33
Subsystem:
bonding driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jay Vosburgh, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Use a more user friendly netlink error message when a device can't be enslaved because it has IFF_MASTER, by not referring directly to a kernel internal flag. Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 04158a8368e4..b0966e733926 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev, if (slave_dev->flags & IFF_MASTER && !netif_is_bond_master(slave_dev)) { BOND_NL_ERR(bond_dev, extack, - "Device with IFF_MASTER cannot be enslaved"); + "Device type (master device) cannot be enslaved"); return -EPERM; }
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2.31.1