linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: hv: Add a script for bonding synthetic and VF NICs

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Message-Id: <20160523.135331.946508716675076086.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 13:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com, olaf@...fle.de,
	vkuznets@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: hv: Add a script for bonding synthetic
 and VF NICs

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:23:38 -0700

> This example script creates 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 <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>

Anything added like this to the tree should be distro neutral.

Furthermore, net-next is closed and no new features should be submitted
at this time.