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From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible bridge regression in "bridge: implement [add/del]_slave ops"?
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:27:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106301527.19539.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106301033.23997.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-30 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30  8:33 possible bridge regression in "bridge: implement [add/del]_slave ops"? Alexander Stein
2011-06-30 13:27 ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2011-06-30 17:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-30 17:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-07-01 10:08   ` David Lamparter
2011-07-04  6:46   ` Alexander Stein
2011-07-05 21:28 ` Stephen Hemminger

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