Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Unbreak netconsole

From: Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:46:11 +0100

On 02/09/14 03:44, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 19:41:15 +0100
>> Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sending netconsole messages over a bridge network interface doesn't
>>> work anymore since kernel v3.12. Bisecting this led to the patch
>>> "bridge: cleanup netpoll code". Hence revert that patch (commit
>>> 93d8bf9fb8f39d6d3e461db60f883d9f81006159).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Neil Horman <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: <[email-masked]> # 3.12
>>> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70071
>>
>> Cong already send an alternative fix for this.
> 
> And it is already in -net:
> 
> commit dbe173079ab58a444e12dbebe96f5aec1e0bed1a
> Author: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Thu Feb 6 15:00:52 2014 -0800
> 
>     bridge: fix netconsole setup over bridge

Thanks Cong and Stephen for working on a fix, and sorry that I had not
noticed that a fix was already available before I sent the patch at the
start of this e-mail thread.

Bart.