From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC v3 4/6] bridge: enable root block during device registration
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:31:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140303163159.365d763b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6VpjebGrqFe7Q4L-uM0rrKitY3fB2kq5qGko+C1Fivm0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:50 -0800
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > Doing this in priv flags bloats what is a limited resource (# of bits).
>
> Agreed. I tried to avoid it but saw no other option for addressing
> this during initialization properly without requirng a userspace
> upgrade.
Replacing one Xen hack for another doesn't seem like great progress.
I would rather see an API change as needed because there are other
things like setting STP parameters which might also want to be part
of initial device add.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-04 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1393886825-24323-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 1/6] bridge: preserve random init MAC address Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 2/6] bridge: trigger a bridge calculation upon port changes Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 3/6] bridge: fix bridge root block on designated port Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 4/6] bridge: enable root block during device registration Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 23:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-03 23:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-04 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-03-04 0:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 5/6] xen-netback: use a random MAC address and force bridge root block Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-03-03 22:47 ` [Bridge] [RFC v3 6/6] tun: add initialization root block support Luis R. Rodriguez
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