From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: turn off carrier when the bridge is created
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:29:27 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150311.012927.708091062408959595.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150310222634.0e485497@urahara>
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:26:34 -0700
> This was discussed and changed long ago (before git was used).
> Initially in 2.5 the bridge carrier was changed to work as you have
> described but this broke some user. Therefore it was decided that the
> best thing to do was keep the carrier always on for the bridge.
>
> You might be able to find the commit by using one of the kernel
> ancient history git trees. Kernel archeology is fun but
> too time consuming for me to bother with.
And for that reason we are probably stuck with the current behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-10 7:09 [PATCH 0/1] bridge: turn off carrier when the bridge is created Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-10 7:09 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-11 2:39 ` yzhu1
2015-03-11 4:03 ` David Miller
2015-03-11 5:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-03-11 5:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-03-11 6:16 ` yzhu1
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