netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Remove VLAN_TAG

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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 20:50:05 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>, dev@...nvswitch.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Remove VLAN_TAG_PRESENT from drivers

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:44:46PM +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> This series removes VLAN_TAG_PRESENT use from network drivers in
> preparation to removing its special meaning.

Can you please give an extra explanation why it is removed?
Such series come out-of-blue, for people who are not following
netdev mailing list closely (drivers/infiniband/*).

Thanks

>
> Michał Mirosław (4):
>   i40iw: remove use of VLAN_TAG_PRESENT
>   cnic: remove use of VLAN_TAG_PRESENT
>   gianfar: remove use of VLAN_TAG_PRESENT
>   OVS: remove use of VLAN_TAG_PRESENT
>
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.c        |  8 +++----
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c          |  2 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c  |  8 +++----
>  net/openvswitch/actions.c                     | 13 +++++++----
>  net/openvswitch/flow.c                        |  4 ++--
>  net/openvswitch/flow.h                        |  2 +-
>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c                | 22 +++++++++----------
>  7 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.19.1
>

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