Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] bridge: Assume master at FDB modification

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:08:20 -0700

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:36:34 +0300
Arkadi Sharshevsky <[email-masked]> wrote:

> According to the man page the master flag should be the default, yet, the
> current code assumes otherwise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <[email-masked]>

Agree that the documentation and code don't match.
But your change could break users with existing scripts by changing behavior.

It would be safer to change the man page not the code.