On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:14:10 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Yeah, I can see it now :( I guess that the ship has sailed and we are
> stuck with this ugly thing forever...
> 
> Could you at least make some common code that is shared in between
> netvsc and virtio_net so this is handled in exacly the same way in both?

IMHO netvsc is a vendor specific driver which made a mistake on what
behaviour it provides (or tried to align itself with Windows SR-IOV).
Let's not make a far, far more commonly deployed and important driver
(virtio) bug-compatible with netvsc.

To Jiri's initial comments, I feel the same way, in fact I've talked to
the NetworkManager guys to get auto-bonding based on MACs handled in
user space.  I think it may very well get done in next versions of NM,
but isn't done yet.  Stephen also raised the point that not everybody is
using NM.
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