[NET]: Fix ifenslave to not fail on lack of IP information

Patch to ifenslave so that under older ABI versions, a failure to propogate ip
information from master to slave does not result in a filure to enslave the
slave device.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
index f315d20d3867..545447ac503a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
@@ -693,13 +693,7 @@ static int enslave(char *master_ifname, char *slave_ifname)
                 /* Older bonding versions would panic if the slave has no IP
                  * address, so get the IP setting from the master.
                  */
-                res = set_if_addr(master_ifname, slave_ifname);
-                if (res) {
-                        fprintf(stderr,
-                                "Slave '%s': Error: set address failed\n",
-                                slave_ifname);
-                        return res;
-                }
+                set_if_addr(master_ifname, slave_ifname);
         } else {
                 res = clear_if_addr(slave_ifname);
                 if (res) {
@@ -1085,7 +1079,6 @@ static int set_if_addr(char *master_ifname, char *slave_ifname)
                                 slave_ifname, ifra[i].req_name,
                                 strerror(saved_errno));
 
-                        return res;
                 }
 
                 ipaddr = ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data;