netdev - Re: [PATCH net] hv_netvsc: set master device

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Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 17:36:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sthemmin@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] hv_netvsc: set master device

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Wed,  9 May 2018 14:09:04 -0700

> The hyper-v transparent bonding should have used master_dev_link.
> The netvsc device should look like a master bond device not
> like the upper side of a tunnel.
> 
> This makes the semantics the same so that userspace applications
> looking at network devices see the correct master relationshipship.
> 
> Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable.