Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: fix link recovery in mode 2 when updelay is nonzero

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 06:01:00 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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.

Thanks,

Paolo