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Message-ID: <20090319220927.GB2714@ami.dom.local>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:09:27 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jorge@...2.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:56:49PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:54:28 +0100
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:26:51PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > Netfilter on ipv6 handles reassembly differently and in a way
> > > that won't result in dev being NULL here.
> > > 
> > > I've applied Jorge's patch, thanks everyone.
> > 
> > My proposal is to revert the ipv6/reassembly part of this patch yet;
> > it doesn't fix anything, and the changelog is only misleading if it's
> > like you said.
> 
> I've already pushed the change out to net-2.6 so I'd really prefer not
> to do that.  Make your desires known more emphatically before a patch
> has been sitting around for days.

I guess you should re-read the thread: if not me, the author of this
patch was very emphatical...

> 
> At worst it's a consistency cleanup with an inaccurate commit message,
> reverting will only make the situation more confusing and ugly.

Sure, no big deal.

Jarek P.
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