netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] switchdev: support stp updates on stacked netdevices

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Message-Id: <20150313.001007.65274068513753002.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	sfeldma@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] switchdev: support stp updates on
 stacked netdevices

From: roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:29:55 -0700

> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> This series moves bridge stp update api to follow the setlink/dellink
> apis to propagate stp state updates to switch ports on stacked netdevs
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> 	fix comment
> 	add CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV checks
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Can't we just do this stacked device traveral transparently?

That seems much cleaner to me.
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