Earlier versions of the sg device driver either have no version number (e.g. the original driver) or a version number starting with “2″. The drivers that support this new interface have a major version number of “3″. The sg version numbers are of the form “x.y.z” and the single number given by the SG_GET_VERSION_NUM ioctl() [...]

Most popular distro kernels ship with the bonding driver already available as a module and the ifenslave user level control program installed and ready for use. If your distro does not, or you have need to compile bonding from source (e.g., configuring and installing a mainline kernel from kernel.org), you’ll need to perform the following [...]