netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: allow zero ageing time

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:31:30 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: allow zero ageing time

Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:35PM CET, stephen@...workplumber.org wrote:
>From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
>
>This fixes a regression in the bridge ageing time caused by:
>commit c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")
>
>There are users of Linux bridge which use the feature that if ageing time
>is set to 0 it causes entries to never expire. See:
>  https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge
>
>For a pure software bridge, it is unnecessary for the code to have
>arbitrary restrictions on what values are allowable.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>