netdev - Re: [PATCH] team: add support to get speed via ethtool

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Date:	Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:14:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gospo@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] team: add support to get speed via ethtool

From: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:10:13 -0500

> You have made it clear that despite the value others see in it, you are
> opposed to setting the speed and duplex on things like tuntap and I
> agree with you on this.  Doing that does nothing but continue to enable
> offload hardware to live in userspace and that is not the proper
> direction the kernel should take.

This is a scarecrow.

HW offloading has nothing at all to do with reporting complete
bullshit link speed and duplex values on team/bonding devices.
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