Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] Revert ncsi: Propagate carrier gain/loss events to the NCSI controller

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:46:16 +0000

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 08:30:29AM -0800, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
> This reverts commit 3780bb29311eccb7a1c9641032a112eed237f7e3.
> 
> The cited commit introduced unwanted behavior.
> 
> The intent for the commit was to be able to detect carrier loss/gain
> for just the NIC connected to the BMC. The unwanted effect is a
> carrier loss for auxiliary paths also causes the BMC to lose
> carrier. The BMC never regains carrier despite the secondary NIC
> regaining a link.
> 
> This change, when merged, needs to be backported to stable kernels.
> 5.4-stable, 5.10-stable, 5.15-stable, 6.1-stable, 6.5-stable
> 
> Fixes: 3780bb29311e ("ncsi: Propagate carrier gain/loss events to the NCSI controller")
> CC: [email-masked]
> Signed-off-by: Johnathan Mantey <[email-masked]>

Hi Jonathan,

thanks for addressing my feedback on v2.

So far as addressing a regression goes, this looks good to me.
But I do wonder what can be done about the issue that
the cited commit was intended to address: will this patch regress things
on that front?

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