On 3/30/2015 6:38 AM, roopa wrote:

On 3/30/15, 1:40 AM, sfeldma@gmail.com wrote:

quoted

From: Scott Feldman <redacted>

Flag is no longer needed so remove it.  Using the attr get/set 
recurse algo
obsoletes the flag.  Setting the flag on bond/team interface, even 
when the
consitient member ports didn't have flag set was confusing.

Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <redacted>

The flag was there to avoid the recursive lowerdev walk where possible.
bond will have the flag if any one slave can have it. You don't walk 
the bond if it does not have the flag.
Also, this allows the user to disable the feature from userspace if 
required and move everything to software.

I was also planning to use this flag to enable lowerdev walk for fdb 
add/delete on a team device with switchdev
member ports and not attached to a bridge.
Will submit a RFC patch for review.

Thanks
Sridhar