> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 9:14 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>;
> o...@aepfle.de; vkuzn...@redhat.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> driverdev-de...@linuxdriverproject.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v2] tools: hv: Add a script to help bonding
> synthetic and VF NICs
> 
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:23:12 -0700
> 
> > This script helps to create bonding network devices based on synthetic NIC
> > (the virtual network adapter usually provided by Hyper-V) and the
> matching
> > VF NIC (SRIOV virtual function). So the synthetic NIC and VF NIC can
> > function as one network device, and fail over to the synthetic NIC if VF is
> > down.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> > Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Make it to be distro neutral.
> 
> This tool doesn't configure anything.
> 
> It fishes information out of sysfs and prints it out.
> 
> I don't think this is useful, not appropriate for the kernel
> tools subdirectory at all.
> 
> When I said make it distro neutral, that meant if you wanted to submit
> this again you were expected to do the hard work of making it
> configure things properly on all major distributions.

The major distros supported by Hyper-V include RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu.
I will put them into the configuration scripts -- is this sufficient?

Thanks,
- Haiyang

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