Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: allow zero ageing time

Jiri Pirko
2016-03-11T10:31:33Z

Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:35PM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
>
>This fixes a regression in the bridge ageing time caused by:
>commit c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")
>
>There are users of Linux bridge which use the feature that if ageing time
>is set to 0 it causes entries to never expire. See:
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge
>
>For a pure software bridge, it is unnecessary for the code to have
>arbitrary restrictions on what values are allowable.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>