From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: possible bridge regression in "bridge: implement [add/del]_slave ops"? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:03:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20110630100322.21c7b28a@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: <201106301033.23997.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> <201106301527.19539.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Stein Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33029 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750976Ab1F3RDb (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:03:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201106301527.19539.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:27:19 +0200 Alexander Stein wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2011 10:33:23 Alexander Stein wrote: > > BTW: I noticed that in 2.6.39.2 independently from this patch revert this > > bridge didn't show up RUNNING ifconfg. Is this intended? Another bridge I > > have, which doesn't use (R)STP, is shown as RUNNING like before. > > This change was caused by commit 1faa4356a3bd89ea11fb92752d897cff3a20ec0e > "bridge: control carrier based on ports online". It prevents the bridge from > actually receiving/sending packets. Reverting restores the old behavior. It is really a bug in RSTP, I will fix it there.