Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:31:59 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v3 4/6] bridge: enable root block during device registration |
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:50 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Hemminger > <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > Doing this in priv flags bloats what is a limited resource (# of bits). > > Agreed. I tried to avoid it but saw no other option for addressing > this during initialization properly without requirng a userspace > upgrade.
Replacing one Xen hack for another doesn't seem like great progress. I would rather see an API change as needed because there are other things like setting STP parameters which might also want to be part of initial device add.
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