Commit 1b3f78df authored by Antoine Tenart's avatar Antoine Tenart Committed by David S. Miller
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bonding: improve nl error msg when device can't be enslaved because of IFF_MASTER 



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: default avatarAntoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ab636138

drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

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@@ -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;

	}