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From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	yinxu@redhat.com,
	"Sebastian Gottschall" <s.gottschall@newmedia-net.de>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH net] net: bridge: remove ipv6 zero address check in mcast queries
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 20:49:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222124904.GO10051@dhcp-12-139.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f60dc0a-f6ee-06ad-f60c-15e035574a75@cumulusnetworks.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> > 
> > For consistency with other vendors and rfc, I would prefer to remove zero address election.
> > For compatibility with previous users, I'm also OK to revert it.
> > > Regards
> > Hangbin
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> In this case I'd suggest the following course of action:
>  - For -net/-stable revert the change since backporting new options is a
>    no-go and we need to restore the bridge state
>  - After -net is merged in net-next, for net-next if you'd like add it
>    as an option and also exclude it from elections when the option is
>    enabled (for example something like multicast_nonzero_src_querier).
>    Just please use the boolopt api and don't add new fields/attr ids.
>    Obviously by default this option will be off to be backwards
>    compatible and avoid surprise mcast flood.
> 
> Or just leave it reverted. :)

This makes sense to me. Thanks for your suggestions.

Regards
Hangbin

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-27  0:50 [net:master 17/19] net//bridge/br_multicast.c:1432:32: error: 'union <anonymous>' has no member named 'ip6'; did you mean 'ip4'? kbuild test robot
2018-10-27  7:10 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2018-10-27  9:07   ` [PATCH net] net: bridge: remove ipv6 zero address check in mcast queries Nikolay Aleksandrov
2018-10-28 15:20     ` [Bridge] " Stephen Hemminger
2018-10-28 16:09       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2018-10-29  1:33     ` Hangbin Liu
2018-12-13 16:10       ` [Bridge] " Linus Lüssing
2018-12-14  2:32         ` Ying Xu
2018-12-17 13:15           ` [Bridge] " Linus Lüssing
2019-02-21  8:01         ` Hangbin Liu
2019-02-21 13:20           ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2019-02-22  7:57             ` Hangbin Liu
2019-02-22 11:16               ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2019-02-22 12:49                 ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
2018-10-29  2:18     ` David Miller

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