On 18/01/2021 23:50, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:39:27PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>> Apologies for the multiple emails, but wanted to leave an example:
>>
>> 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev ens16 master bridge permanent
>>
>> This must always exist and user-space must be able to create it, which
>> might be against what you want to achieve (no BR_FDB_LOCAL entries with
>> fdb->dst != NULL).
> 
> Can you give me an example of why it would matter that fdb->dst in this
> case is set to ens16?
> 

Can you dump it as "dev ens16" without it? :) 
Or alternatively can you send a notification with "dev ens16" without it?

I'm in favor of removing it, but it is risky since some script somewhere might
be searching for it, or some user-space daemon might expect to see a 
notification
for such entries and react on it.

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