On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 07:52 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I don't think these are necessary. The device is already available and > the relationship > can be determined from other messages. This is what RSTP daemon does. > Rethinking about it, I think we can just put port->dev->ifindex instead of port->port_no in the netlink message, so patch 1/2 is not needed at more. Thanks!