Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] switchdev: support stp updates on stacked netdevices

From: roopa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:25:24 -0700

On 3/12/15, 9:10 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:29:55 -0700
>
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>>
>> This series moves bridge stp update api to follow the setlink/dellink
>> apis to propagate stp state updates to switch ports on stacked netdevs
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> 	fix comment
>> 	add CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV checks
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> Can't we just do this stacked device traveral transparently?
>
> That seems much cleaner to me.
David, if you mean not touch bond and team but have the switchdev api do 
it transparently, yes, i had it that way initially.
And i do liked it that way as well. But the feedback i received (during 
the initial introduction of this for setlink/dellink) was to make it 
explicit for each master.

Thanks,
Roopa