Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/3] Make the PHY library stop being so greedy when binding the generic PHY driver

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 07:21:19PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:

Hi Russell

Do you have

auto brdsl

in your /etc/network/interfaces?

Looking at /lib/udev/bridge-network-interface it seems it will only do
hotplug of interfaces if auto is set on the bridge interface. Without
auto, it only does coldplug. So late appearing switch ports won't get
added.

I think you're looking at this:

[ "$BRIDGE_HOTPLUG" = "no" ] && exit 0

?

Just before that is:

[ -f /etc/default/bridge-utils ] && . /etc/default/bridge-utils

and /etc/default/bridge-utils sets BRIDGE_HOTPLUG, which is by
default:

# Shoud we add the ports of a bridge to the bridge when they are
# hotplugged?
BRIDGE_HOTPLUG=no

and... none of this seems documented. Not in
/usr/share/doc/bridge-utils/README.Debian and not in the
bridge-utils-interfaces(5) man page. This is all a bit rubbish,
really.

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