netdev - Re: [RFC] mark MD5 as broken in older (stable) kernels

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Message-Id: <20080709.164800.167187868.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	agl@...erialviolet.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mark MD5 as broken in older (stable) kernels

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:58:51 -0700

> The following should probably be sent to stable kernel tree to disable
> MD5 in older kernels. It will avoid problems for all those vendor
> kernels.

If we're going to take the time to fix this, we should take
the time to push a bug fix, not a disable, into -stable.

Part of this is my fault as I haven't had time to review
the MD5 fixes being posted since I want to fix the TX
multiqueue stuff so I can get it into 2.6.27, first.
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