On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:15 AM Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/6/2018 4:50 PM, Chas Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:55 PM Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 02/08/2018 15:38, Doherty, Declan:
> >>> On 01/08/2018 2:18 PM, Radu Nicolau wrote:
> >>>> When a bonding port is stopped also stop and deactivate all slaves.
> >>>> Otherwise slaves will be still listed as active.
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: 69bce062132b ("net/bonding: do not clear active slave count")
> >>>> Cc: [email protected]
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Declan Doherty <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Waiting for opinion from the other bonding maintainer (Chas)
> >> who started to review and has some doubts.
> >>
> >
> > The slaves being listed as active is not a bug.  If the slaves are not
> > deactivated, then they should be considered activated.  Previously,
> > stopping the bonding PMD just reset the active slave count.  That's
> > not the right way to deactivate slaves.  This was fixed by 69bce062132b.
> >
> > This patch is new behavior of explicitly deactivating the slaves when
> > the bonding PMD is stopped.
> >
> > As I mentioned, I think this makes life difficult for those of us using
> > an external state machine.  However, that should probably be fixed
> > differently then.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Chas, please do you agree with Declan's ack?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Change the Fixes line.
>
> Hi Chas,
>
> Are you OK with the rest of the patch if Fixes line fixed?
> If already have a proposed fixes line I can fix it while merging.
>

Yes, the rest of the patch is fine as long as the Fixes is correct.
Try this:

    Fixes: 2efb58cbab6e ("bond: new link bonding library")

And it's really new behavior.  Perhaps Fixes: isn't quite right.
The current code works fine with activated slaves existing outside
of the stop/star.


>
> Thanks,
> ferruh
>

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