netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] docs: bridge: add STP doc

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:02:55 +0800
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] docs: bridge: add STP doc

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 01:39:47PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:31:40PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > +STP
> > +===
> 
> I think it would be very good to say a few words about the user space
> STP helper at /sbin/bridge-stp, and that the kernel only has full support
> for the legacy STP, whereas newer protocols are all handled in user
> space. But I don't know a lot of technical details about it, so I would
> hope somebody else chimes in with a paragraph inserted here somewhere :)

Hmm, I google searched but can't find this tool. Nikolay, is this tool still
widely used? Do you know where I can find the source code/doc of it?

Thanks
Hangbin