From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 08:01:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20110609060105.GA6286@minipsycho.redhat.com> References: <20110524.022406.2228892895515155850.davem@davemloft.net> <20110601.205940.1179055860757569997.davem@davemloft.net> <20110608162841.GB4409@minipsycho.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , David Miller , shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com, nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net, jesse@nicira.com To: Changli Gao Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54517 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953Ab1FIGBt (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 02:01:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:08:13AM CEST, xiaosuo@gmail.com wrote: >On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> >> Why we can't remove this right away? >> > >I think the reason is this patch is a bug fix for the stable kernel, >so we should not introduce new features or remove old features. But for net-next if should be ok, right? What's the reason for possibility of removing the reorder flag? Why would user want do it? Thanks Jirka > >-- >Regards, >Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)