netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't stop backtracking in fib6_lookup

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Message-ID: <20130814100657.GB16264@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:06:57 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Teco Boot <teco@...-net.nl>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: don't stop backtracking in fib6_lookup_1 if subtree does not match

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Teco Boot wrote:
> Many excuses to send before adding text. Hitted wrong button.
> 
> I don't want to enforce something. Nor I want to spam. Nor I want to bypass. I just spend some cycles to get IPv6 with multi-homing work as designed. Subtrees was broken, maybe from day one. I'm glad there is progress.
> 
> I also do not want broken fixes in stable. I know what it is. As I posed, I had to deal with broken fixes when testing the subtree fix. I double checked the fix Hannes made, because Hannes asked me to do so. I'm in for doing more work here.

Teco, I don't see the problem. The patch is on its way. It is in stable and
will be included in the next kernel, 3.11. That is all the luxus a patch can
possibly have.

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