netdev - Re: VLAN bridge patches backported to 2.6.x ?

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Message-ID: <20141216185909.GA7122@1wt.eu>
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:59:09 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Ajit Warrier <ajit.warrier@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VLAN bridge patches backported to 2.6.x ?

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Ajit Warrier wrote:
> The VLAN aware bridge was introduced to the Linux mainline on the 3.x kernels:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/538877/
> 
> Has this feature been backported to the 2.6.x kernels by anybody ? The
> official linux 2.6.32.64 does not have this feature.

No, we only backport fixes to 2.6.32, not new features. Such a large
patchset could definitely break working setups for various reasons ranging
from incompatibilities to errors in backports. So that's definitely not
something supposed to happen for 2.6.32.

Regards,
Willy

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