netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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.

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20150311.012927.708091062408959595.davem@davemloft.net \
    --to=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com \
    --cc=dsahern@gmail.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=stephen@networkplumber.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).