From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove IPX raw 802.3 detection from eth_type_trans()
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:40:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179124720702.1957713.16297694043226585416.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261002185509.17226-1-edumazet@kernel.org>
Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2026 20:55:09 +0200 you wrote:
> eth_type_trans() and vlan_set_encap_proto() still carry a "magic hack"
> to spot Novell raw 802.3 frames (IPX directly over 802.3, without
> an 802.2 LLC header) by looking for 0xFFFF in the first two bytes
> of the payload, and report them as ETH_P_802_3.
>
> IPX was removed in commit 7a2e838d28cf ("staging: ipx: delete it
> from the tree") and there is no in-kernel packet handler for
> ETH_P_802_3 on the Ethernet receive path anymore.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next] net: remove IPX raw 802.3 detection from eth_type_trans()
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6451576b5396
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2026-10-02 18:55 [PATCH net-next] net: remove IPX raw 802.3 detection from eth_type_trans() Eric Dumazet
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