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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:19:38 +0200
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sf.net,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] BUG: bonding module can only be loaded once
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd expect its not the distros, but rather the applicances which might
>>> still be using this. I know a vendor I used to work for a couple of
>>> years ago just recently made the switch from 2.6.16 to a current kernel,
>>> and I'd expect that they are still using this (I can find out tommorrow
>>> if you want to know for sure). Vyatta likewise, I guess.
>>
>>     Yes, I'd like to know for sure; thanks.
> 
> I'll let you know.

They are still using the module alias method, but on a kernel slightly
older than the patch which broke this (2.6.25).
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