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Vivien Didelot authored
If /sbin/bridge-stp is available on the system, bridge tries to execute it instead of the kernel implementation when starting/stopping STP. If anything goes wrong with /sbin/bridge-stp, bridge silently falls back to kernel STP, making hard to debug userspace STP. This patch adds a br_stp_call_user helper to start/stop userspace STP and debug errors from the program: abnormal exit status is stored in the lower byte and normal exit status is stored in higher byte. Below is a simple example on a kernel with dynamic debug enabled: # ln -s /bin/false /sbin/bridge-stp # brctl stp br0 on br0: failed to start userspace STP (256) # dmesg br0: /sbin/bridge-stp exited with code 1 br0: failed to start userspace STP (256) br0: using kernel STP Signed-off-by:
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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