netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipx: restore token ring define to include/linux/ipx.h

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2012 13:49:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipx: restore token ring define to
 include/linux/ipx.h

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 10:43:45 -0400

> Commit 211ed865108e24697b44bee5daac502ee6bdd4a4
> 
>     "net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring"
> 
> removed the define for IPX_FRAME_TR_8022.
> 
> While it is unlikely, we can't be 100% sure that there aren't
> random userspace consumers of this value, so restore it.
> 
> The only instance I could find was in ncpfs-2.2.6, and it was
> safe as-is, since it used #ifdef IPX_FRAME_TR_8022 around the
> two use cases it had, but there may be other userspace packages
> without similar ifdefs.
> 
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks Paul.
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