linux-kernel - Re: [ 06/79] net: Swap ver and type in pppoe

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:55:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 06/79] net: Swap ver and type in pppoe_hdr

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:58:28 +0100

> I'm not so sure this is suitable for stable.  It doesn't seem to be
> helpful to either userland or kernel code.
> 
> In the kernel, we were checking that ver == 1 and type == 1 thus this
> wasn't hurting us.
> 
> If userland does anything more with these fields then it's probably
> already working around the swapped fields.  It can work with both old
> and new headers by doing:

It's up to you, I would rather have the corrected version propagated
as soon as possible.  But that's just me.
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