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Subject: Re: Regression: Bug 196547 - Since 4.12 - bonding module not working
 with wireless drivers
To: Andreas Born <futur.andy@googlemail.com>
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        Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>,
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        Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
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From: James Feeney <james@nurealm.net>
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On 08/13/2017 11:42 AM, Andreas Born wrote:
> On a side note I would recommend some of my own reading to you about
> patch submission in general [1] and on netdev specifically [2].

Mmm - [2] and [3], I suspect.  Thanks Andreas.  I'll be studying those.  Yeah,
I'm still learning what is needed and what works.  Sometimes, just a note to the
author is more than enough to resolve a problem.  Sometimes, discussion is
needed.  And other times... well, certain people are infamous... but no problem
here, thankfully.

> And, just wondering, who's going to eventually close that bugreport?
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196547

I can close it when the patches actually land in the kernel.  I'm glad to see
that there was an "Ack" from Mahesh.

On the topic of wireless support for kernel ethtool reporting, I'm wondering, is
there is any consensus about that?

And, for instance, is there any *other* way for the bonding module to make
"better link" decisions for wireless links?  As "wireless" becomes more capable,
possibly more diverse, and probably more essential for computing, this is likely
to become a bigger issue.

Ben Greear mentioned that he had added some support to the ath10k driver.  Dan
Williams mentioned the possibility of updating the mac80211 stack for support.
And Arend van Spriel suggested that the issue might best be left for the next
Netconf.

Immediate problem solved, but maybe a larger issue still needs to be addressed?

James