[Bridge] [RFC v3 4/6] bridge: enable root block during device registration

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:50 -0800
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at do-not-panic.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> 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.