Re: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/531

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:54:57PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian Wiessner wrote:
> 
> >Am 22.05.2013 22:04, schrieb Greg KH:
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next/+/567b871e503316b0927e54a3d7c86d50b722d955%5E!/
> >> 
> >> Ok, that's what we need.
> >> 
> >> Now, please cc: the developers / maintainers of that patch and ask them
> >> to have it included in the 3.4-stable kernel series.
> >> 
> >> Then, if they agree, the network maintainer will pick it up and send it
> >> to me for inclusion.
> >> 
> >
> >i set committer	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> in cc already, but do not
> >know the network maintainer...
> >
> >this seems to me that "Matthew O'Connor" <liquidhorse@gmail.com> sent this to
> >netdev on 2013-02-01:
> >
> >http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2013/02/01/86
> >
> >but i couldn't find a trace of the patch in 3.4.36?!
> 
> 	The patch in question here is in net-next; the commit is:
> 
> commit 567b871e503316b0927e54a3d7c86d50b722d955
> Author: zheng.li <zheng.x.li@oracle.com>
> Date:   Tue Nov 27 23:57:04 2012 +0000
> 
>     bonding: rlb mode of bond should not alter ARP originating via bridge
> 
> 
> 	The additional change in the backport from Matthew O'Connor (to
> add ether_addr_equal_64bits) appears to still be necessary for 3.4.46.
> Alternatively, the patch could utilize ether_addr_equal instead, to
> minimize the change set.  Greg, do you have a preference there?

What ever matches upstream is best.

> 	Submissions for stable from networking normally go through
> Davem; I can check the patch and repost it to netdev against 3.4.46 if
> everybody is ok with that.

Yes, I need networking stable patches to come to me from David.

thanks,

greg k-h