Bug#981076: bridge-utils: clarify bridge_hw situation

2021-01-28 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
If anyone asks me, declaring removable devices in allow-hotplug would make more sense, since we'll typically wanna run perform ifup actions upon connecting the device to the computer. In the case of WiFi dongles used as AP, we'll typically wanna load the configuration file defined via the "hostapd

Bug#981076: bridge-utils: clarify bridge_hw situation

2021-01-28 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.6-5+b1 Followup-For: Bug #981076 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Having further googled this and made a few tests, the key difference seems to be whether the removable devices are declared in the auto or in the allow-hotplug lines of

Bug#981076: bridge-utils: clarify bridge_hw situation

2021-01-27 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: bridge-utils Followup-For: Bug #981076 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This mess is the result of the kernel maintainers changing their mind on how the bridge module should work. This isn't bridge-utils' fault. bridge-utils merely tries to adapt to those changes and

Bug#981076: bridge-utils: clarify bridge_hw situation

2021-01-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.6-5+b1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de, n...@naturalnet.de I’m shocked to read this in apt-listchanges so shortly before a release: bridge-utils (1.6-4) unstable; urgency=low Linux kernel has changed bridge MAC address selection. In older