From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88BEC7618E for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231425AbjDXJZW (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:25:22 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57346 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229547AbjDXJZV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:25:21 -0400 Received: from mail-pj1-x1030.google.com (mail-pj1-x1030.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::1030]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 289FD2117 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pj1-x1030.google.com with SMTP id 98e67ed59e1d1-24736790966so3646714a91.2 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:25:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1682328314; x=1684920314; h=content-disposition:mime-version:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=35DRhB75q3wRkebp9DrJb+2dw6nrBa1EQoLcH9Em600=; b=BNlwlnuVqgfas/so+5JH2OtAppwOpVA0nv/LhzX7waApxmjwkXkMMACaqFrsKr8PVt SLuuW2laKLiaSz4ka3ixztRuwnK5TL+k7M3agtcAHQa0t6ZaVvcX82pfQUPQZQMj7avT m7Inxi8adG3ZUVueGfkNz54K1k13bX1230IrX+itNmrOeHzFQAWzf9A19ESD14X3MM9w s0JPHVLwHSagHe+ShaZxv7LDLYKZFjlrChKbTYHr+GIJhBnthxZxDJXmOjV4zq4tQcZi 8TqG2AI2UTNke3z3TgbKer65jqecPvmN42yER8jBrI+c3/gnF9f+YTSIjf0cvD0GNEOz wEvw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1682328314; x=1684920314; h=content-disposition:mime-version:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=35DRhB75q3wRkebp9DrJb+2dw6nrBa1EQoLcH9Em600=; b=bh9G3Rj/8YtNEz3JRRFZW2NV/zay28chojvf1ExLe6d2O4j6BDQZOr+MH1rdfIEADJ zzaN21E2lyA2e8rrJEE3U9dfiR26oXmxzF1ZIeg4ldpDQHgqBj0Usied1J+9oggVYCNs mE34Z3cEdXnIRqqADhyfY7oCl6cKO84q5NXidSDdhoBYzmgyfZVS893KkroukBsHzUbL 4Stjm3EyqLTRGSOGFmsfhGbdTW0CS9yta6S2wP5daZF2CwqCzjx4+BMLMBK1sMedCbh3 vDi1B3fj/W+0LlAYBx0E2I7upGgUB7cidc04Je+hlvh4t+xE8WJaBd0TGLpML8oZsvyE c5Pg== X-Gm-Message-State: AAQBX9d5mCidNn2w4WsmbzAIs/9tUiJwQDj7gdZ71L5Fi8MVkaMu/FxJ BwRQ5LchFqSlySOkqXKEn0YhOV/qVutGfu9d X-Google-Smtp-Source: AKy350aK4nmwqgILtsdGLYKD9MJBIiMBQ5N2Spb29aoGzvTkWDGc+sDgnCrMvheVAtpWyzWLwRPqpA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:310:b0:247:6ead:d0ed with SMTP id ay16-20020a17090b031000b002476eadd0edmr12757044pjb.28.1682328313949; Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Laptop-X1 ([209.132.188.80]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f12-20020a170902684c00b001a6d08eb054sm6227226pln.78.2023.04.24.02.25.11 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:25:08 +0800 From: Hangbin Liu To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Roopa Prabhu , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Ido Schimmel , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: [Question] Any plan to write/update the bridge doc? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Hi, Maybe someone already has asked. The only official Linux bridge document I got is a very ancient wiki page[1] or the ip link man page[2][3]. As there are many bridge stp/vlan/multicast paramegers. Should we add a detailed kernel document about each parameter? The parameter showed in ip link page seems a little brief. I'd like to help do this work. But apparently neither my English nor my understanding of the code is good enough. Anyway, if you want, I can help write a draft version first and you (bridge maintainers) keep working on this. [1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/bridge [2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/bridge.8.html [3] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-link.8.html Thanks Hangbin