From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.69] Bridge timer performance enhancement Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030514072350.P23367@shell.cyberus.ca> References: <20030509132012.598602ec.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, bridge@math.leidenuniv.nl Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20030509132012.598602ec.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen, Seems you are the new maintainer to the bridging code? I suppose Lennert is still still listening in the background somewhere. One thing we should do post 2.6 is move all the STP protocol specific out of the kernel. i.e leave the datapath controllers (such as controlling STP states) in the kernel but have a user sapce daemon. This way you can start adding a lot more feature rich extensions in user space without waiting for kernel releases or having kernel patches (Fast Forward etc). A second item is to start looking at integrating STP with the VLAN code. Too bad Lennert (and someone else - cant remember the name) VLAN code never made it in. We can still fix this. cheers, jamal