This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bridge: Allow set bridge ageing time when switchdev disabled to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bridge-allow-set-bridge-ageing-time-when-switchdev-disabled.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016 From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:48:08 +0800 Subject: bridge: Allow set bridge ageing time when switchdev disabled From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5e263f712691615fb802f06c98d7638c378f5d11 ] When NET_SWITCHDEV=n, switchdev_port_attr_set will return -EOPNOTSUPP, we should ignore this error code and continue to set the ageing time. Fixes: c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev") Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_stp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/bridge/br_stp.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp.c @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ int br_set_ageing_time(struct net_bridge int err; err = switchdev_port_attr_set(br->dev, &attr); - if (err) + if (err && err != -EOPNOTSUPP) return err; br->ageing_time = t; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yanhaishuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/bridge-allow-set-bridge-ageing-time-when-switchdev-disabled.patch queue-4.4/ipv4-l2tp-fix-a-potential-issue-in-l2tp_ip_recv.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-l2tp-fix-a-potential-issue-in-l2tp_ip6_recv.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html