From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt•eu>
To: Ajit Warrier <ajit.warrier@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: VLAN bridge patches backported to 2.6.x ?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:59:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141216185909.GA7122@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrgqt3rMUnkQChTE+_HDiTHx++bp8MWcQ_xp7-Y3tbFznTKMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Ajit Warrier wrote:
> The VLAN aware bridge was introduced to the Linux mainline on the 3.x kernels:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/538877/
>
> Has this feature been backported to the 2.6.x kernels by anybody ? The
> official linux 2.6.32.64 does not have this feature.
No, we only backport fixes to 2.6.32, not new features. Such a large
patchset could definitely break working setups for various reasons ranging
from incompatibilities to errors in backports. So that's definitely not
something supposed to happen for 2.6.32.
Regards,
Willy
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2014-12-07 19:25 VLAN bridge patches backported to 2.6.x ? Ajit Warrier
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