From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:45:50 -0800

> A deadlock was found in bridge netfilter code (2.4 only), when a device is 
> removed.
> The device removal path causes a BPDU to be generated and ends up
> self deadlocking on the BR lock.
> 
> Simple fix would be to avoid generating config bpdu's
> immediately when becoming root bridge, and just let the first hello
> timer tick do that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Applied, I'll push this to Willy.

Thanks Stephen.
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