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From: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:10:13 -0500

> You have made it clear that despite the value others see in it, you are
> opposed to setting the speed and duplex on things like tuntap and I
> agree with you on this.  Doing that does nothing but continue to enable
> offload hardware to live in userspace and that is not the proper
> direction the kernel should take.

This is a scarecrow.

HW offloading has nothing at all to do with reporting complete
bullshit link speed and duplex values on team/bonding devices.