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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:16:02 +0800 From: yzhu1 <Yanjun.Zhu@...driver.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <dsahern@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: turn off carrier when the bridge is created On 03/11/2015 01:26 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:03:50 -0400 (EDT) > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > >> From: yzhu1 <Yanjun.Zhu@...driver.com> >> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:39:53 +0800 >> >>> Hi, Stephen && David >>> >>> Any comment? >> Asking Stephen to look at this more times will not make him respond >> any faster. I see your posting, he sees it, everyone sees it. >> >> If he's too busy to look into this, that's just the state of affairs >> right now and you just need to be patient. >> >> Thanks. > This was discussed and changed long ago (before git was used). > Initially in 2.5 the bridge carrier was changed to work as you have > described but this broke some user. Therefore it was decided that the > best thing to do was keep the carrier always on for the bridge. > > You might be able to find the commit by using one of the kernel > ancient history git trees. Kernel archeology is fun but > too time consuming for me to bother with. > > Thanks for your explanations. Best Regards! Zhu Yanjun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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