Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add helper to call /sbin/bridge-stp

2016-09-13 Thread David Miller
From: Vivien Didelot Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 12:50:43 -0400 > If /sbin/bridge-stp is available on the system, bridge tries to execute > it instead of the kernel implementation when starting/stopping STP. > > If anything goes wrong with /sbin/bridge-stp, bridge silently falls back > to kernel STP,

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add helper to call /sbin/bridge-stp

2016-09-09 Thread Vivien Didelot
Hi Stephen, Stephen Hemminger writes: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 12:50:43 -0400 > Vivien Didelot wrote: > >> If /sbin/bridge-stp is available on the system, bridge tries to execute >> it instead of the kernel implementation when starting/stopping STP. >> >> If anything goes wrong with /sbin/bridge-

Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add helper to call /sbin/bridge-stp

2016-09-08 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 12:50:43 -0400 Vivien Didelot wrote: > If /sbin/bridge-stp is available on the system, bridge tries to execute > it instead of the kernel implementation when starting/stopping STP. > > If anything goes wrong with /sbin/bridge-stp, bridge silently falls back > to kernel STP, m

[PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add helper to call /sbin/bridge-stp

2016-09-08 Thread Vivien Didelot
If /sbin/bridge-stp is available on the system, bridge tries to execute it instead of the kernel implementation when starting/stopping STP. If anything goes wrong with /sbin/bridge-stp, bridge silently falls back to kernel STP, making hard to debug userspace STP. This patch adds a br_stp_call_use