Re: [Question] Any plan to write/update the bridge doc?

[Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:04:47AM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Always +1 for keeping the man pages up-to-date, but I tend to agree with Jakub as well
> that it'd be nice to have an in-kernel doc which explains the uapi and potentially
> at least some more obscure internals (if not all), we can insist on updating it
> for new changes
> 
> I'd be happy to help fill such doc, but at the moment I don't have the
> time to write the basis for it. As Hangbin nicely offered, I think we can start
> there. For a start it'd be nice to make an initial outline of the different sections
> and go on filling them from there.
> 
> E.g. as a starter something like (feel free to edit):
> Introduction
> Bridge internals (fdb, timers, MTU handling, fwding decisions, ports, synchronization)
> STP (mst, rstp, timers, user-space stp etc)
> Multicast (mdb, igmp, eht, vlan-mcast etc)
> VLAN (filtering, options, tunnel...)
> Switchdev
> Netfilter
> MRP/CFM (?)
> FAQ
> 
> Each of these having uapi sections with descriptions. We can include references
> to the iproute2 docs for cmd explanations and examples, but in this doc we'll have
> the uapi descriptions and maybe some helpful information about internal implementation
> that would save future contributors time.
> 
> At the very least we can do the uapi part for each section so options are described
> and uapi nl attribute structures are explained.

OK, I will try start a draft version after the Labor holiday.

Hangbin