netdev - Re: [PATCH] l2tp: Add protocol field decompression

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Date:   Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:17:58 +0100
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>
Cc:     James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] l2tp: Add protocol field decompression

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 08:36:42PM +0200, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> Hi Guillaume,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:29 PM Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr> wrote:
> >
> > If you all agree, can we please revert this patch and properly
> > implement PFC in ppp_generic.c?
> 
> How about instead of reverting I will try to provide the patch
> extracting duplicated PFC code (from L2TP, PPTP, etc) to
> ppp_generic.c? This one fixes actual problem, and if we are going to
> add it to ppp_generic anyway, why not do it in one patch? I'm willing
> to do this work in next few days. Hope there is no rush with revert?
> 
Hi Sam,

Yes, no problem. Thanks for taking care of that.
But please try to get the code ready before net-next gets closed.

Guillaume