Multi-PHYs and multiple-ports bonding support

[Jiri Pirko]

Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:51:00AM CEST, maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com wrote:

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>3) UAPI
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>From userspace, we would need ways to list the ports, their state, and
>possibly to configure the bonding parameters. for now in ethtool, we
>don't have the notion of port at all, we just have 1 netdevice == 1
>port. Should we therefore create one netdevice per port ? or stick to
>that one interface and refer to its ports with some ethtool parameters ?

I don't like the idea of having 1 netdev per port. Netdev represents
mostly the MAC entity, and there is only one.

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