From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751221AbcFKBNl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:13:41 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:33851 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbcFKBNj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:13:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20160610.181336.132305021219588924.davem@davemloft.net> To: haiyangz@microsoft.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kys@microsoft.com, olaf@aepfle.de, vkuznets@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v2] tools: hv: Add a script to help bonding synthetic and VF NICs From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1465593792-31672-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com> References: <1465593792-31672-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Haiyang Zhang 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 > Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > --- > 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.