From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: roopa Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] switchdev: support stp updates on stacked netdevices Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:25:24 -0700 Message-ID: <5502E544.7030003@cumulusnetworks.com> References: <1426206598-29410-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> <20150313.001007.65274068513753002.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sfeldma@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:41951 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755441AbbCMNZZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:25:25 -0400 Received: by pablj1 with SMTP id lj1so29500184pab.8 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:25:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150313.001007.65274068513753002.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 3/12/15, 9:10 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:29:55 -0700 > >> From: Roopa Prabhu >> >> This series moves bridge stp update api to follow the setlink/dellink >> apis to propagate stp state updates to switch ports on stacked netdevs >> >> v1 -> v2: >> fix comment >> add CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV checks >> >> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu > Can't we just do this stacked device traveral transparently? > > That seems much cleaner to me. David, if you mean not touch bond and team but have the switchdev api do it transparently, yes, i had it that way initially. And i do liked it that way as well. But the feedback i received (during the initial introduction of this for setlink/dellink) was to make it explicit for each master. Thanks, Roopa