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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:05:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201.140548.1596323918646956109.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111201104409.2d04ca06@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:44:09 -0800

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:16:37 +0200
> Vitalii Demianets <vitas@nppfactor.kiev.ua> wrote:
> 
>> When in user-stp mode, bridge master do not follow state of its slaves, so 
>> after the following sequence of events it can stuck forever in no-carrier 
>> state:
>> 1) turn stp off
>> 2) put all slaves down - master device will follow their state and also go in 
>> no-carrier state
>> 3) turn stp on with bridge-stp script returning 0 (go to the user-stp mode)
>> Now bridge master won't follow slaves' state and will never reach running 
>> state.
>> 
>> This patch solves the problem by making user-stp and kernel-stp behavior 
>> similar regarding master following slaves' states.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@nppfactor.kiev.ua>
> 
> This method works fine. David please apply to -net.
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Done.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25 10:16 [PATCH] bridge: master device stuck in no-carrier state forever when in user-stp mode Vitalii Demianets
2011-11-29 23:54 ` David Miller
2011-11-30  0:06   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-01 18:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-01 19:05   ` David Miller [this message]

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