From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: forwarding table information for >256 devices
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:53:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502.165348.226972498.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501134209.3012de69@extreme>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:42:09 -0700
> The forwarding table binary interface (my bad choice), only exposes the
> port number of the first 8 bits. The bridge code was limited to 256 ports
> at the time, but now the kernel supports up 1024 ports, so the upper bits
> are lost when doing:
> brctl showmacs
>
> The fix is to squeeze the extra bits into small hole left in data structure,
> to maintain binary compatiablity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
At least you had somewhere to stick the high bits :)
Applied, thanks.
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2008-05-01 20:42 [PATCH] bridge: forwarding table information for >256 devices Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-02 23:53 ` David Miller [this message]
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