From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: control carrier based on ports online Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110314.142908.179940791.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1649722795.14144.1299480074110.JavaMail.root@tahiti.vyatta.com> <4D748CC3.8060603@gmail.com> <20110307103406.27330529@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com, adamm@zombino.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net, fubar@us.ibm.com To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40979 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756584Ab1CNV2b (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:28:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110307103406.27330529@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:34:06 -0800 > This makes the bridge device behave like a physical device. > In earlier releases the bridge always asserted carrier. This > changes the behavior so that bridge device carrier is on only > if one or more ports are in the forwarding state. This > should help IPv6 autoconfiguration, DHCP, and routing daemons. > > I did brief testing with Network and Virt manager and they > seem fine, but since this changes behavior of bridge, it should > wait until net-next (2.6.39). > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.