On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:42:08 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote: > This patch adds a selftest that verifies netconsole functionality > over bonded network interfaces using netdevsim. It sets up two bonded > interfaces acting as transmit (TX) and receive (RX) ends, placed in > separate network namespaces. The test sends kernel log messages and > verifies that they are properly received on the bonded RX interfaces > with both IPv4 and IPv6, and using basic and extended netconsole > formats.
I'm not great at reading bash but I don't think this tests what we care about. We want to test bonding's special ability to propagate a netpoll instances onto its sub-interfaces. So you should be trying to test different orders of setting and disabling netpoll on the bond and its sub-interfaces (while the other is setup path is also active). Since the bonding tests can't run on real HW it can't live directly in tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/ we need to move it to either the netdevsim group or the bonding group.
