Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device

Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:59:04AM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:30:12 -0800
Alexander Duyck [off-list ref] wrote:

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Again, I undertand your motivation. Yet I don't like your solution.
But if the decision is made to do this in-driver bonding. I would like
to see it baing done some generic way:
1) share the same "in-driver bonding core" code with netvsc
   put to net/core.
2) the "in-driver bonding core" will strictly limit the functionality,
   like active-backup mode only, one vf, one backup, vf netdev type
   check (so noone could enslave a tap or anything else)
If user would need something more, he should employ team/bond.  

Sharing would be good, but netvsc world would really like to only have
one visible network device.

Why do you mind? All would be the same, there would be just another
netdevice unused by the vm user (same as the vf netdev).