Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751499Ab1F3N13 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:27:29 -0400 Received: from webbox687.server-home.net ([195.149.74.151]:46827 "EHLO webbox687.server-home.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751025Ab1F3N1W (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:27:22 -0400 From: Alexander Stein To: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: possible bridge regression in "bridge: implement [add/del]_slave ops"? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:27:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "David S. Miller" , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201106301033.23997.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> In-Reply-To: <201106301033.23997.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106301527.19539.alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 13 On Thursday 30 June 2011 10:33:23 Alexander Stein wrote: > BTW: I noticed that in 2.6.39.2 independently from this patch revert this > bridge didn't show up RUNNING ifconfg. Is this intended? Another bridge I > have, which doesn't use (R)STP, is shown as RUNNING like before. This change was caused by commit 1faa4356a3bd89ea11fb92752d897cff3a20ec0e "bridge: control carrier based on ports online". It prevents the bridge from actually receiving/sending packets. Reverting restores the old behavior. -- 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/