netdev - Re: Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 13:42:49 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Noah Meyerhans <noahm@...ian.org>
Cc:	625914@...s.debian.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not
 interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 21:38 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:38:44AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This is pretty weird.  Debian version 2.6.38-3 has a few bridging
> > changes from stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4, but they don't look like they
> > would cause this.
> 
> I have apparently filed the bug against the wrong version of Debian's
> kernel.  2.6.38-3 is not affected, and works as expected.  The change
> was introduced in -4.  That may have been clear from the report itself,
> but the report was filed against -3.  I've fixed that in the BTS.

I gathered that, and then made the same mistake in writing the above!
The version with the regression, 2.6.38-4, includes the changes from
stable 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.38.4

Ben.

> I've also confirmed that -5 is affected, to no great surprise.
> 
> I'll investigate further.
> 
> noah
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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