On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 13:55:37 -0800 longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Hyper-V platforms, a slave VF netdev always bonds to Netvsc and remains > as Netvsc's only active slave as long as the slave device is present. This > behavior is the same as a bonded device, but it's not user-configurable. > > Some kernel APIs (e.g those in "include/linux/netdevice.h") check for > IFF_MASTER, IFF_SLAVE and IFF_BONDING for determing if those are used in > a master/slave bonded setup. Netvsc's bonding setup with its slave device > falls into this category. Again, this is way too much of a hack. You're trying to make netif_is_bond_master() return true for your franken-interfaces with minimal effort. -- pw-bot: reject