netdev - Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm)

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Date:	Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:42:37 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	vyasevic@...hat.com, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm)

On 10/16/13 16:22, Vlad Yasevich wrote:

> Yes, I know about that one.  BRIDGE_FLAGS started the polution and then
> we continued it with the other attributes....
>

Understood - note the email has subject TheLinuxWay ;->
So i fear this one also falls under "it is already in the wild, cant do
anything about it".

BTW: the flooding and learning knobs are still not exposed to iproute2.

In regards to a GET always being translated to DUMP forcing user space
to filter:
If neither you nor Stephen planning to take of it, I will because it
is a scaling problem.  Please let me know.

cheers,
jamal

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