Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bridge: leave carrier on for empty bridge

From: Nicolas de Pesloüan<[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:39:03 +0200

Le 02/09/2011 19:22, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> This resolves a regression seen by some users of bridging.
> Some users use the bridge like a dummy device.
> They expect to be able to put an IPv6 address on the device
> with no ports attached during boot.
>
> Note: the bridge still will reflect the state of ports in the
> bridge if there are any added.

Doesn't this jeopardize the behavior introduced in 1faa4356a3bd89ea11fb92752d897cff3a20ec0e
"bridge: control carrier based on ports online"?

If the user starts the DHCP client before adding the first port to the bridge, the DHCP client will 
have a carrier and start the autoconfiguration process. This was the old behavior, but you fixed it.

	Nicolas.