netdev - [PATCH] iptables/man: IPv6 TOS mangling fix was backported to 2.6.35-longterm too

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Message-ID: <1312246840.8407.2.camel@nexus.oss.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:00:40 +0900
From:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking Developer Mailing List 
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] iptables/man: IPv6 TOS mangling fix was backported to
 2.6.35-longterm too

Update man page accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
---

diff -urNp iptables-orig/extensions/libxt_TOS.man iptables/extensions/libxt_TOS.man
--- iptables-orig/extensions/libxt_TOS.man	2011-07-11 17:41:10.000000000 +0900
+++ iptables/extensions/libxt_TOS.man	2011-08-02 09:59:27.356614494 +0900
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ Binary XOR the TOS value with \fIbits\fP
 \fIbits\fP\fB/0\fP. See NOTE below.)
 .PP
 NOTE: In Linux kernels up to and including 2.6.38, with the exception of
-longterm releases 2.6.32.42 (or later) and 2.6.33.15 (or later), there is a bug
-whereby IPv6 TOS mangling does not behave as documented and differs from the
-IPv4 version. The TOS mask indicates the bits one wants to zero out, so it needs
-to be inverted before applying it to the original TOS field. However, the
+longterm releases 2.6.32 (>=.42), 2.6.33 (>=.15), and 2.6.35 (>=.14), there is
+a bug whereby IPv6 TOS mangling does not behave as documented and differs from
+the IPv4 version. The TOS mask indicates the bits one wants to zero out, so it
+needs to be inverted before applying it to the original TOS field. However, the
 aformentioned kernels forgo the inversion which breaks --set-tos and its
 mnemonics.


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