Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload

[PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> · 2018-11-19
Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-19
[PATCH net-next 3/6] net/bpf_jit: MIPS: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 5/6] net/bpf_jit: SPARC: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 1/6] net/skbuff: add macros for VLAN_PRESENT bit · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 4/6] net/bpf_jit: PPC: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 6/6] net: remove VLAN_TAG_PRESENT · Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> · 2018-11-10
Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2018-11-10
Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · Alexei Starovoitov <hidden> · 2018-11-17
Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2018-11-17
Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> · 2018-11-19
Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] Remove VLAN.CFI overload · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2018-11-17

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-11-17 05:13:30
Also in: linuxppc-dev, netdev, sparclinux

From: Alexei Starovoitov <redacted>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:51:55 -0800

Michal, could you please explain the reasoning?

By treating VLAN.CFI specially as "VLAN TAG PRESENT" we prevent
the usage of certain VLAN ID encodings.

So he's trying to get rid of VLAN_TAG_PRESENT completely and this
was the final patch series necessary to accomplish that.

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