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

[Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>]

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