From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: use correct ether type for alb
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:41:56 +0100
Message-ID: <1394710918-29540-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>,
	Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Return-path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org

Hi,

There have been reports that, while using the ETH_P_LOOP ether type
(0x0060), the ether type is treated as its packet length.

To avoid that and to not break already existing apps - add new ether type
ETH_P_LOOPBACK that contains the correct id - 0x9000.


CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
CC: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
CC: Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>
CC: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
CC: Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)