On 6/13/2018 5:10 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 2/12/2018 6:26 PM, Chas Williams wrote:
>> It's not clear to me that link_properties_valid() is even correct.  Nothing
>> prevents an adapter from later negotiating a lower speed and would fail this
>> test.  If both adapters are set to autoneg, that should be sufficient but
>> nothing enforces the speed match after the slaves are configured.  So what is
>> the point of this check?
> 
> Reminder of this patch.
> 
> This is waiting in the backlog for a long time. It is not even clear if the
> patch is still valid or not.
> 
> Also based on missing response to Chas' clarification request, I am for
> dropping/rejecting the patch.
> 
> @Declan, @Radu please chime in if this patch is required/valid.

Marked as rejected.

> 
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net
>> <mailto:tho...@monjalon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     17/01/2018 17:02, Ferruh Yigit:
>>     > On 11/29/2017 3:42 PM, Tomasz Kulasek wrote:
>>     > > Some devices needs more time to initialize and bring interface up. 
>> When
>>     > > link is down the link properties are not valid, e.g. link_speed is
>>     > > reported as 0 and this is not a valid speed for slave as well as for 
>> whole
>>     > > bonding.
>>     > >
>>     > > During NIC (and bonding) initialization there's concurrency between
>>     > > updating link status and adding slave to the bonding.
>>     > >
>>     > > This patch:
>>     > >
>>     > >  - adds delay before configuring bonding (if link is down) to be 
>> sure that
>>     > >    link status of new slave is valid,
>>     > >  - propagates information about link status from first slave with 
>> link up
>>     > >    instead of first slave at all, to be sure that link speed is 
>> valid.
>>     > >
>>     > > Fixes: 6abd94d72ab5 ("net/bonding: fix check slaves link properties")
>>     > > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kula...@intel.com 
>> <mailto:tomaszx.kula...@intel.com>>
>>     > > ---
>>     > > v2 changes:
>>     > >  - Checkpatch warnings,
>>     > >  - Improved code style
>>     > Hi Declan,
>>     >
>>     > Any comment on this patch?
>>
>>     Any news?
>>
>>
>>
> 

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