netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] bonding: update ntt to true in passive mode

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Message-ID: <aIIj5v8E_CpQaDVP@fedora>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:15:34 +0000
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <jv@...sburgh.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] bonding: update ntt to true in passive mode

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:57:53AM +0200, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	FWIW, I usually reference the older standards 2008 or 2014, as
> the 2020 edition changes a lot of things and bonding isn't necessarily
> conformant to those changes (e.g., many of the state machines are
> different in large or small ways).  Technically, the bonding
> implementation was written to the pre-802.1AX standard when it was still
> part of 802.3 (hence the name 802.3ad), clause 43.
> 
> 	This particular bit (the EXPIRED state actions) is the same,
> but, for example, the transition test from EXPIRED to DEFAULTED is
> different in the 2014 vs 2020 editions, and we need to be careful not to
> implement the state machines piecemeal from different editions of the
> standard.

Thanks for this info. I will download 2014 version and recheck my
changes.

Cheers
Hangbin