From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F83CC43381 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD48520842 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=wp.pl header.i=@wp.pl header.b="qWHX65GU" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730284AbfB1A66 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:58:58 -0500 Received: from mx3.wp.pl ([212.77.101.10]:56416 "EHLO mx3.wp.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729918AbfB1A65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:58:57 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:58:56 EST Received: (wp-smtpd smtp.wp.pl 5180 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2019 01:52:13 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=wp.pl; s=1024a; t=1551315134; bh=oRC/jbMec76V8YUaXSWu72omuVaqGv7y4agfwAkoWRY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject; b=qWHX65GU5HR4j/NPZzmZjcp7rDHUNZW16oJZFQp5ruadwZOxdykEMWBtqlhQy15yk OWsPTtoQtGjFqAMNkrcIZOOPiy0Sb24YQodEMtCEk1IdLkiv2wwRUn/6OwAGGttMI0 IyIRazir05ckO/i/jBLAWsXO5Qld3o10uKS0novk= Received: from 014.152-60-66-biz-static.surewest.net (HELO cakuba.netronome.com) (kubakici@wp.pl@[66.60.152.14]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp.wp.pl (WP-SMTPD) with ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted SMTP for ; 28 Feb 2019 01:52:13 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:52:05 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: si-wei liu , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , Siwei Liu , Jiri Pirko , Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , Netdev , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtio-dev , "Brandeburg, Jesse" , Alexander Duyck , Jason Wang , liran.alon@oracle.com Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: net_failover slave udev renaming (was Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework) Message-ID: <20190227165205.307ed83c@cakuba.netronome.com> In-Reply-To: <20190227193923-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <91d4cbb1-be7a-b53c-6b2a-99bef07e7c53@intel.com> <20190222100753-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20190225210529-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20190227173710-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20190227184601-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20190227193923-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WP-MailID: afb7346a8ce726ad662fadf16c6fbc0f X-WP-AV: skaner antywirusowy Poczty Wirtualnej Polski X-WP-SPAM: NO 0000000 [kQOU] Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:41:32 -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > As this scheme adds much complexity to the kernel naming convention > > (currently it's just ethX names) that no userspace can understand. > > Anything that pokes at slaves needs to be specially designed anyway. > Naming seems like a minor issue. Can the users who care about the naming put net_failover into "user space will do the bond enslavement" mode, and do the bond creation/management themselves from user space (in systemd/ Network Manager) based on the failover flag?