netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: linearize skb before accessing its data

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Message-Id: <20131022.025038.1046903740187748879.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	antonio@...hcoding.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: linearize skb before accessing its data

From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:37:14 +0200

> Ok I will do that. But I think this API change must go into
> net-next, right?  Otherwise we would break every existing user.

Too bad, it's a necessary API change to fix the bug, the users
will need to change too.

It's not our problem if they are out-of-tree and can't be fixed
in-situ.
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