netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 01/10] docs: bridge: update doc format to rst

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Message-ID: <20231128144609.08b4275b@hermes.local>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:46:09 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
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>, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, Roopa
 Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean
 <olteanv@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Marc Muehlfeld
 <mmuehlfe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 01/10] docs: bridge: update doc format to rst

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:49:34 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com> wrote:

> The current bridge kernel doc is too old. It only pointed to the
> linuxfoundation wiki page which lacks of the new features.
> 
> Here let's start the new bridge document and put all the bridge info
> so new developers and users could catch up the last bridge status soon.
> 
> In this patch, Convert the doc to rst format. Add bridge brief introduction,
> FAQ and contact info.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>

Should also reference and borrow definitions from the IEEE 802.1D standard.