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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:55:26 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: imorgan@...mordial.ca Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure From: Ian Morgan <imorgan@...mordial.ca> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 08:05:13 -0400 (EDT) > The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be > incapable of being added to a bond. > > When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated > that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for > success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers > follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing > through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code > to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it > allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver. > > I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple, > and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround. > > This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0). > > Signed-off-by: Ian Morgan <imorgan@...mordial.ca> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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