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From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:51:39 -0400

> To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use
> of master and slave in the bonding driver as possible. For the most
> part, I think this can be done without breaking UAPI, but may require
> changes to anything accessing bond info via proc or sysfs.

You can change what you want internally to the driver in order to meet
this objective, but I am positively sure that external facing UAPI has
to be retained.