linux-drivers/
drivers/net/bonding

Linux Bonding Network Interface Driver

A virtual networking feature that combines multiple physical network interfaces into a single logical link for redundancy or higher throughput. It implements link aggregation modes such as active-backup failover, 802.3ad LACP, and round-robin load balancing, and is widely used on servers, hypervisors, and switches running Linux.

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recommendation

This is not actually a hardware driver; it is the in-kernel implementation of bonded (aggregated) virtual network interfaces. It remains a core, heavily-used networking feature in modern Linux deployments and is not a candidate for removal.

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a hardware driver directory: contains the Linux bonding virtual netdevice/team-link aggregation implementation, not chipset-bound hardware driver code.