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.
