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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:01:38 +0200
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, David Ahern
 <dsahern@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
 Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
 Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean
 <olteanv@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv3 net-next 10/10] docs: bridge: add small features

On 11/10/23 12:15, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Add some small features in the "Others" part of bridge document.

Please use "other" instead of "small". People can get offended. These
are not small features, just other. Same for patch subject.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/networking/bridge.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst b/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
> index 7f63d21c9f46..8adf99774d59 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
> @@ -273,6 +273,20 @@ So, br_netfilter is only needed if users, for some reason, need to use
>   ip(6)tables to filter packets forwarded by the bridge, or NAT bridged
>   traffic. For pure link layer filtering, this module isn't needed.
>   
> +Other Features
> +==============
> +
> +The Linux bridge also supports `IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP
> +<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=958501163ddd6ea22a98f94fa0e7ce6d4734e5c4>`_,
> +`Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)
> +<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200426132208.3232-1-horatiu.vultur@microchip.com/>`_,
> +`Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) LC mode
> +<https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124082525.273820-1-horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>`_,
> +`IEEE 802.1X port authentication
> +<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220218155148.2329797-1-schultz.hans+netdev@gmail.com/>`_,
> +and `MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB)
> +<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221101193922.2125323-2-idosch@nvidia.com/>`_.
> +
>   FAQ
>   ===
>