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Description of problem:

As we plan to deprecate teaming on RHEL9 and ask customers to move to bonding.
We need to fix the feature gaps between bonding and teaming. This bug is intend to add teaming feature 'hwaddr' for bonding.

hwaddr: Desired hardware address of new team device. Usual MAC address format is accepted.

This option will set team with a stable hwaddr in each mode. From sos reports there are 1298 use cases. It looks like a reasonable feature to have on bonding.

Based on bonding doc:

8.  Where does a bonding device get its MAC address from?
---------------------------------------------------------

When using slave devices that have fixed MAC addresses, or when
the fail_over_mac option is enabled, the bonding device's MAC address is
the MAC address of the active slave.

For other configurations, if not explicitly configured (with
ifconfig or ip link), the MAC address of the bonding device is taken from
its first slave device.  This MAC address is then passed to all following
slaves and remains persistent (even if the first slave is removed) until
the bonding device is brought down or reconfigured.

If you wish to change the MAC address, you can set it with
ifconfig or ip link::

        # ifconfig bond0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

        # ip link set bond0 address 66:77:88:99:aa:bb


This means bond acts differently with team, the hwaddr will be persistent if fail_over_mac is not set. So I think there is no need to implement the 'hwaddr' option.