netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: only use connected ports when sending

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Message-Id: <20140724.233103.1260773709423863725.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.stevens@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: only use connected ports when sending

From: David L Stevens <david.stevens@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:49:29 -0400

> The sunvnet driver doesn't check whether or not a port is connected when
> transmitting packets, which results in failures if a port fails to connect
> (e.g., due to a version mismatch). The original code also assumes
> unnecessarily that the first port is up and a switch, even though there is
> a flag for switch ports.
> 
> This patch only matches a port if it is connected, and otherwise uses the
> switch_port flag to send the packet to a switch port that is up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <david.stevens@...cle.com>

This doesn't apply because your email client mangled the patch, it turned
TAB characters into sequences of SPACE characters.

Secondly, this is a bonafide bug fix, and therefore should be targetted
at 'net' instead of 'net-next'.

Thanks.
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