If we modify primary via sysfs and it is not a valid slave,
we should record it for future use, and this behavior is the same with
bond_check_params().
Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
                }
        }
 
-       pr_info("%s: Unable to set %.*s as primary slave.\n",
-               bond->dev->name, (int)strlen(buf) - 1, buf);
+       strncpy(bond->params.primary, ifname, IFNAMSIZ);
+       bond->params.primary[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0;
+
+       pr_info("%s: Recording %s as primary, "
+               "but it has not been enslaved to %s yet.\n",
+               bond->dev->name, ifname, bond->dev->name);
 out:
        write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
        read_unlock(&bond->lock);