netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled"

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:42:19 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	vyasevic@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when
 STP enabled"

From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:15:32 -0500

> This reverts commit 34c2d9fb0498c066afbe610b15e18995fd8be792.
> 
> There are 2 reasons for this revert:
>  1)  The commit in question doesn't do what it says it does.  The
>      description reads: "Allow bridge forward delay to be configured
>      when Spanning Tree is enabled."  This was already the case before
>      the commit was made.  What the commit actually do was disallow
>      invalid values or 'forward_delay' when STP was turned off.
> 
>  2)  The above change was actually a change in the user observed
>      behavior and broke things like libvirt and other network configs
>      that set 'forward_delay' to 0 without enabling STP.  The value
>      of 0 is actually used when STP is turned off to immediately mark
>      the bridge as forwarding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

Fair enough, applied, thanks Vlad.
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