Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Decouple receive and transmit enablement in team driver

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:33:08 -0700

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:33:46 +0000 Marc Harvey wrote:
> Allow independent control over receive and transmit enablement states
> for aggregated ports in the team driver.
> 
> The motivation is that IEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" can't
> be implemented for the team driver currently. This was added to the
> bonding driver in commit 240fd405528b ("bonding: Add independent
> control state machine").
> 
> This series also has a few patches that add tests to show that the old
> coupled enablement still works and that the new decoupled enalbment
> works as intended (4, 5, and 7).
> 
> There are three patches with small fixes as well, with the goal of
> making the final decouplement patch clearer (1, 2, and 3).

The tests don't pass for us, any dependencies we should be aware of?

# selftests: drivers/net/team: teamd_activebackup.sh
# Setting up two-link aggregation for runner activebackup
# Conf files are /tmp/tmp.zYDeygAAcf and /tmp/tmp.y5dfmFapAj
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# Created team devices
# PING fd00::2 (fd00::2) 56 data bytes
# 64 bytes from fd00::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=233 ms
# 
# --- fd00::2 ping statistics ---
# 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
# rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 233.163/233.163/233.163/0.000 ms/bin/bash: line 1: pv: command not found
# Packet count for test_team2 was 0
# Packet count for eth0 was 0
# Packet count for eth1 was 0
# Packet count for eth0 was 0
# Packet count for eth1 was 0
# TEST: teamd active backup runner test                               [FAIL]
# Traffic did not reach team interface in NS2.
# ./team_lib.sh: line 87: kill: (597) - No such process
# Tearing down two-link aggregation
# Failed to kill daemon: Timer expired
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