Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756642AbYIACZx (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:25:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752980AbYIACZl (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:25:41 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:34944 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752055AbYIACZl (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:25:41 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: David Miller , Dushan Tcholich , Francois Romieu , Robert Hancock , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:09 PDT." <20080831104309.780cc01f@extreme> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <48975BD3.6040709@shaw.ca> <20080807185802.GA16327@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20080831100537.6929c51e@extreme> <20080831104309.780cc01f@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1220235929_12805P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:25:30 -0400 Message-ID: <19455.1220235930@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1386 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1220235929_12805P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:09 PDT, Stephen Hemminger said: > Warning: this may cause user backlash since apparently working but standards > conforming configurations will get configuration errors that they didn't > see before. Did you mean "apparently working but *non*-standards conforming"? Other than that, seems to be a sane application of "Be conservative in what you send". Our network is some 30K cat-5 ports, 1100 switches, 1300 wireless access points, and we appreciate it every time somebody makes things more bulletproof. And yes, we prefer things to out-and-out *fail* rather than run in a wonky configuration - hard failures usually get fixed in a few minutes, wonkiness can drag on for months of mystifying symptoms... --==_Exmh_1220235929_12805P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFIu1KZcC3lWbTT17ARAmJaAKD+LZ/6wS6BV8FrmwpE/v41tXfNtACfT7+d 7vnicwD7pqOc9q10nWXNz/4= =uKnV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1220235929_12805P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/