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

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Message-ID: <54FFDDA2.9070705@windriver.com>
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
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