netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Fix continued iteration in rtnl_bridge

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Date:	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 23:04:44 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Fix continued iteration in
 rtnl_bridge_getlink()

On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 22:56 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> I'm still not sure it's correct to break iteration if
> ndo_bridge_getlink returns -EOPNOTSUPP (possible if the driver supports
> a mixture of bridging and non-bridging devices).
[...]

Never mind that - the driver can just return 0 for those devices, as
ixgbe is doing.  But the bug this patch addresses seems to be real.

Ben.

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