From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755899AbaCDAcI (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:32:08 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:52950 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755343AbaCDAcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:32:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:31:59 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC v3 4/6] bridge: enable root block during device registration Message-ID: <20140303163159.365d763b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1393886825-24323-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1393886825-24323-5-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <20140303154330.238a20bc@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:50 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Hemminger > wrote: > > Doing this in priv flags bloats what is a limited resource (# of bits). > > Agreed. I tried to avoid it but saw no other option for addressing > this during initialization properly without requirng a userspace > upgrade. Replacing one Xen hack for another doesn't seem like great progress. I would rather see an API change as needed because there are other things like setting STP parameters which might also want to be part of initial device add.