netdev - Re: v2: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v2: [PATCH 2/3] netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti
 overflow

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:44:10 +0200

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:51:00 +0800
> >> Patrick McHardy said the following on 2008-6-17 20:59:
> >>> Assuming the caller does proper error handling, that printk is
> >>> not true.
> >> Yes.
> >> But currently, no caller handling this, and I think even if I make
> >> some callers to handle this, but there maybe some callers and their
> >> callers do not want to handle error condition.
> >> So I need a KERN_WARNING here.
> >> If some day, all of the caller handle the error properly, we can
> >> remove this printk.
> >>
> >> Here is v3:
> >
> > Patrick, ACK?
> 
> Yes, thanks.

Thanks, applied to net-next-2.6, I'll push to kernel.org after some
build sanity checks.

Since this is a bug fix we could put it into net-2.6, but I really
would like this to brew for a while in net-next-2.6 before doing
so.
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