netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: turn off carrier when the bridge is created

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Message-Id: <20150311.012927.708091062408959595.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:	Yanjun.Zhu@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bridge: turn off carrier when the bridge is created

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:26:34 -0700

> 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.

And for that reason we are probably stuck with the current behavior.
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