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From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: jiri@resnulli•us, netdev@vger•kernel.org, jiri@mellanox•com,
	aduyck@mirantis•com, edumazet@google•com, daniel@iogearbox•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: avoid vlan ptype specific match to be leaked on real device
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:28:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467019712.4606.7.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160626.160608.2073563033978522175.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 16:06 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:40:50 +0200
> 
> > The patch only unified the behaviour so everyone know what to expect
> > regardless of the device type.
> 
> +1
> 
> And reverting this behavior back is going to hurt more people than it
> will help, so I am not going to apply this, sorry.

Would a /proc/net/vlan sysctl to control the switch from the new to the
old behavior (with default to the new) make this acceptable ?

Recent users will not be affected, and users of the old behavior could
manage kernel upgrade without breaking their applications. 

Thank you,

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-27  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-22 10:25 [PATCH net] net: avoid vlan ptype specific match to be leaked on real device Paolo Abeni
2016-06-22 10:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-22 12:21   ` Paolo Abeni
2016-06-22 12:40     ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-26 20:06       ` David Miller
2016-06-27  9:28         ` Paolo Abeni [this message]
2016-06-27  9:37           ` Jiri Pirko
2016-06-27 13:43           ` David Miller

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