Hi All,

I have one netcf question, please help me to resolve it, thanks.

I can set a IFF_RUNNING flag to a bridge device which are no interface device 
attached. What status of a flag on a bridge device in current kernel?(w/o 
interface), is this a new change in kernel or other component? In netcf, but 
there is a patch to fix that flag issue, I can't understand it.  

fix wrong status of bridge devices
The IFF_RUNNING flag is not set on a bridge device if there are no devices 
attached to it. So bridges without attached devices are reported as inactive. 
Destroying inactive devices leads to an error and thus the device can't be 
removed (easily) from the operating system. This patch checks if the device is 
a bridge and if so ignores the IFF_RUNNING flag. 

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/netcf.git/commit/?id=7fa5fa5a1e43e6e2afec68c58b5f43bc916703a6


My testing results of IFF_RUNNING on non-device bridge:

Version:
[root@rhel6 boot]# rpm -q kernel netcf
kernel-2.6.32-468.el6.x86_64
netcf-0.2.4-1.el6.x86_64

[root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.000000000000       no              
[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0 up
[root@rhel6 ~]# brctl show br0
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.000000000000       no              
[root@rhel6 ~]# ifconfig br0
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6A:3B:6F:DF:17:A9  
          inet6 addr: fe80::683b:6fff:fedf:17a9/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:866 (866.0 b)

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