netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge

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Message-ID: <20110925091606.GE32712@torres.zugschlus.de>
Date:	Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:16:06 +0200
From:	Marc Haber <mh+netdev@...schlus.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Nicolas de Pesloüan wrote:
> I really support the idea to keep the current behavior (assert
> carrier on br0 when at least one port have carrier) and to fix the
> applications to wait for the IPv6 address to be checked (DAD)
> instead of dying on bind() failure.

A really brilliant idea. Break things and then expect hundreds of apps
or millions of installations to adapt.

Greetings
Marc

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