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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: fix link recovery in mode 2 when
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To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
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On 11/22/22 09:45, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 08:36 -0500, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
>> On 11/22/22 05:59, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2022-11-18 at 15:30 -0500, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
>>>> Before this change when a bond in mode 2 lost link, all of its slaves
>>>> lost link, the bonding device would never recover even after the
>>>> expiration of updelay. This change removes the updelay when the bond
>>>> currently has no usable links. Conforming to bonding.txt section 13.1
>>>> paragraph 4.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Why are you targeting net-next? This looks like something suitable to
>>> the -net tree to me. If, so could you please include a Fixes tag?
>>>
>>> Note that we can add new self-tests even via the -net tree.
>>>
>>
>> I could not find a reasonable fixes tag for this, hence why I targeted
>> the net-next tree.
> 
> When in doubt I think it's preferrable to point out a commit surely
> affected by the issue - even if that is possibly not the one
> introducing the issue - than no Fixes as all. The lack of tag will make
> more difficult the work for stable teams.
> 
> In this specific case I think that:
> 
> Fixes: 41f891004063 ("bonding: ignore updelay param when there is no active slave")
> 
> should be ok, WDYT? if you agree would you mind repost for -net?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
> 

Yes that looks like a good one. I will repost to -net a v2 that includes 
changes to reduce the number of icmp echos sent before failing the test.

Thanks,
-Jon