From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next V8] net: introduce ethernet teaming device Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:09:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20111113.160951.1905657808657009542.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1321085808-6871-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, tgraf@infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, mirqus@gmail.com, kaber@trash.net, greearb@candelatech.com, jesse@nicira.com, fbl@redhat.com, benjamin.poirier@gmail.com, jzupka@redhat.com, ivecera@redhat.com To: jpirko@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:60404 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751676Ab1KMVMQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:12:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1321085808-6871-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:16:48 +0100 > This patch introduces new network device called team. It supposes to be > very fast, simple, userspace-driven alternative to existing bonding > driver. > > Userspace library called libteam with couple of demo apps is available > here: > https://github.com/jpirko/libteam > Note it's still in its dipers atm. > > team<->libteam use generic netlink for communication. That and rtnl > suppose to be the only way to configure team device, no sysfs etc. > > Python binding of libteam was recently introduced. > Daemon providing arpmon/miimon active-backup functionality will be > introduced shortly. All what's necessary is already implemented in > kernel team driver. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Applied, thanks for all of your hard work.