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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index a55f0f95b17..b0fe41da007 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ doing so is the same as described in the "Configuring Multiple Bonds
Manually" section, below.
NOTE: It has been observed that some Red Hat supplied kernels
-are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-obonding1"
+are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-o bond1"
part). Attempts to pass that option to modprobe will produce an
"Operation not permitted" error. This has been reported on some
Fedora Core kernels, and has been seen on RHEL 4 as well. On kernels
@@ -883,7 +883,8 @@ the above does not work, and the second bonding instance never sees
its options. In that case, the second options line can be substituted
as follows:
-install bonding1 /sbin/modprobe bonding -obond1 mode=balance-alb miimon=50
+install bond1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bonding -o bond1 \
+ mode=balance-alb miimon=50
This may be repeated any number of times, specifying a new and
unique name in place of bond1 for each subsequent instance.