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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: bridge-utils: wrong sysfs path odds
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:37:41 +0100
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Hi!

Am 25.11.2015 um 23:30 schrieb Santiago Garcia Mantinan:
> Hi!
> 
>> Ask Debian maintainer to send his patches, I don't go patch hunting.
> 
> 
>     While looking what other distros do I came across this patch:
>     https://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bridge-utils.git/tree/bridge-utils-1.5-check-error-returns-from-write-to-sysfs.patch
> 
> 
> Don't know about the fedora guys but at least I did send some patches which include this /bridge addition, and Stephen did even ack it as you can read on:
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2011-May/007646.html

Meanwhile I've found https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/bridge-utils.git/
It contains some fixes.
So, the problem is that we have fixes but no release which contains these.
Stephen, can you do a maintenance release? Maybe 1.5.1?

Thanks,
//richard