Re: failure with bridge devices

[Olaf Hering <olaf aepfle de>]

On Wed, Sep 30, Dan Williams wrote:

> Backwards compatibility, an intention to replicate the behavior of
> various legacy network initscripts that had the same behavior (where eg
> 'ifup br0' after boot didn't bring up slaves), and because it's not
> always the case that you want every single slave configuration that
> references 'br0' to be started when br0 starts.  In general, NM tries to
> be less destructive by default, and allow you to opt into destruction :)

Just to emulate a buggy ifup? Not sure if our ifup even had a mode to
leave slaves alone. I suggest to patch the buggy behaviour into the
distro packages where needed, instead of having people patch the correct
behaviour into the packages..

Olaf