Jiri, on 4.4-rc1 running on an s390x box (so qeth OSA network cards as real NICs) I get errors like: [ 10.940523] Ebtables v2.0 registered [ 11.685609] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this. [ 11.686252] virbr0-nic: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000080000048c1, left 0x00000080001b48c9 [ 11.794553] virbr0: error setting offload STP state on port 1(virbr0-nic) [ 11.794556] virbr0-nic: failed to set HW ageing time [ 11.794558] virbr0: error setting offload STP state on port 1(virbr0-nic) [ 11.794644] virbr0-nic: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000080000048c1, left 0x00000080001b48c9 [ 11.794675] device virbr0-nic entered promiscuous mode [ 11.794706] virbr0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x000000801fdb78c9, left 0x000000801fff78e9 [ 11.962901] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 12.025317] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (65536 buckets, 262144 max) [ 12.086880] virbr0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x000000801fdb78c9, left 0x000000801fff78e9 [ 12.086924] virbr0: error setting offload STP state on port 1(virbr0-nic) [ 12.086926] virbr0-nic: failed to set HW ageing time [ 12.086927] virbr0: error setting offload STP state on port 1(virbr0-nic) [ 12.086928] virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered listening state [ 12.086934] virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered listening state [ 12.087023] virbr0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x000000801fdb78c9, left 0x000000801fff78e9 [ 12.087057] virbr0-nic: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000080000048c1, left 0x00000080001b48c9 [ 12.087088] virbr0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x000000801fdb78c9, left 0x000000801fff78e9 [ 12.087122] virbr0-nic: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000080000048c1, left 0x00000080001b48c9 [ 12.087153] virbr0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x000000801fdb78c9, left 0x000000801fff78e9 [ 12.102634] virbr0: error setting offload STP state on port 1(virbr0-nic) [ 12.102637] virbr0: port 1(virbr0-nic) entered disabled state bisecting _one_ of the problem (the error message change, but I said "bad" whenever there was at least one error) points to commit 0bc05d585d381c30de3fdf955730df31593d2101 Author: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed Oct 14 19:40:50 2015 +0200 Commit: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Thu Oct 15 06:09:48 2015 -0700 switchdev: allow caller to explicitly request attr_set as deferred Macvtap has a similar issue on 4.4-rc1: [ 260.414547] macvtap0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000004001f5209, left 0x00000004001f5a09 [ 260.414555] macvtap0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000004001f5209, left 0x00000004001f5a09 [ 260.541477] macvtap0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000004001f5209, left 0x00000004001f5a09 [ 260.541532] macvtap0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000004001f5209, left 0x00000004001f5a09 [ 260.541603] macvtap0: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x00000004001f5209, left 0x00000004001f5a09 [ 260.984503] device enccw0.0.f500 entered promiscuous mode Does somebody have an idea? Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html