netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: make bonding slaves honour master's skb->priority

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Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com
Cc:	zenczykowski@...il.com, fbl@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make bonding slaves honour master's skb->priority

From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:45:35 -0700

> Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I tripped on it few times and never understood why we
>>> were fixing the priority at this point.
>>> thanks,
>>
>>It looks like ancient code, going all the way back to something like
>>Linux 2.4.14 (if I recall my git blame session correctly).
>>I can't think of a good reason for this...
> 
> 	I believe this line goes back to the beginning, prior to git or
> bk.  The skb->priority probably meant something different than it does
> today.
> 
> 	In any event, I'm fine with the code change.  There's still no
> actual log message, but if Davem is ok with that I'm ok with it, given
> the trivial nature of the change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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