Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v0 0/5] Series short description

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:51:47 -0700

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:49:50 -0700
John Fastabend <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 3/19/2012 5:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:27:00 -0700
> > 
> >> Dave, its probably fine to push this to 3.5 then.
> > 
> > Fair enough.
> 
> Stephen, please let me know if you see any issues though
> because without these we have no way to forward packets
> correctly in the embedded switch. So we can't really
> use SR-IOV and virtual interfaces together correctly. And
> the macvlan device in passthru mode is putting the device
> in promiscuous mode which isn't great either.
> 
> .John

I am more worried about evaluating ABI compatibility with older
utilities.