netdev - Re: net-next-2.6 status...

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:56:44 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	linville@...driver.com, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: net-next-2.6 status...

Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:38:57PM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:38:03 +0100
>
>> Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:02:51AM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>>>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>>>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:50:09 +0100
>>>
>>>>>Jiri, I know there is your patch set there, but I think you and Changli
>>>>>still need to go back and forth one more time wrt. orig_dev semantics.
>>>>>Since you have been posting this patch set for some time I'm still
>>>>>willing to apply it for this merge window, but please make haste and
>>>>>work out the remaining discussion.  Thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> Dave, you can apply the rest of the series and leave only the first
>>>> patch (af_packet) out. There's no dependency. We will figure out things
>>>> around origdev later.
>>>
>>>I was about to do that but I've found other problems.
>>>
>>>You cannot make the modifications you make to linux/if.h, those
>>>interface flags are visible to userspace.
>> 
>> What do you suggest? To remove unused flags and leave gaps there or to
>> not to remove the flags at all?
>
>You can't remove them, otherwise if it happened to be reference in the
>sources to some app out there, it will start to fail to compile.
>
>This is pretty obvious stuff, I hope :-)

Ok :( So would you leave out if.h hunk out or should I repost?

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