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

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Message-ID: <20231203121250.35110a99@hermes.local>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 12:12:50 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, 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>, 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 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:02:55 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com> wrote:

> 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

Older one is here (no longer maintained):
  https://github.com/shemminger/RSTP
Other version is here:
  https://github.com/mstpd/mstpd