From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Changli Gao Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:08:13 +0800 Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1 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: Jiri Pirko Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:51390 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754103Ab1FHXIe (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:08:34 -0400 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so846122bwz.19 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:08:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110608162841.GB4409@minipsycho.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Regards, Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)