As correctly pointed out by Jay Vosburgh, "This comment dates to sometime before git, when it was common for network device drivers to lack the ability to change the MAC while the interface is up. To the best of my knowledge, that isn't a issue today." Based on the discussion in the RFC linked below, I am removing the TODO. Link to the RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/2001256.1782860341@famine/T/#t Signed-off-by: Paritosh Potukuchi --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index d2e4dae4e97c..d5c19dc4bc07 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -4865,12 +4865,6 @@ static int bond_set_mac_address(struct net_device *bond_dev, void *addr) __func__, slave); res = dev_set_mac_address(slave->dev, addr, NULL); if (res) { - /* TODO: consider downing the slave - * and retry ? - * User should expect communications - * breakage anyway until ARP finish - * updating, so... - */ slave_dbg(bond_dev, slave->dev, "%s: err %d\n", __func__, res); goto unwind; -- 2.43.0