netdev - Re: [ANN] net-next is OPEN

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Message-ID: <20240129070304.3f33dcf2@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:03:04 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org"  <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 "netdev-driver-reviewers@...r.kernel.org" 
 <netdev-driver-reviewers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] net-next is OPEN

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:23:15 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > It's a bug in that version of iputils ping. It sets the BINDTODEVICE and
> > then resets it because the source address is not set on the command line
> > (it should not be required).
> > 
> > There are a couple of workarounds - one which might not age well (ie.,
> > amazon linux moving forward to newer packages -I <addr> -I <vrf>) and
> > one that bypasses the purpose of the test (ip vrf exec)).  
> 
> Could the script validate the 'ping' command WRT the bad behavior/bug
> and  eventually skip the related tests?

Skipping if the package has a bug would be best, if we can figure that
out. The latest version is fixed, right? I can build it locally, just
like pretty much everything else..