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

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-11-17 05:13:30
Also in: linux-mips, netdev, sparclinux
Reply to: Alexei Starovoitov, 2018-11-17

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.

Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Daniel Borkmann · 2018-11-19
Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-19
[PATCH net-next 3/6] net/bpf_jit: MIPS: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 5/6] net/bpf_jit: SPARC: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 1/6] net/skbuff: add macros for VLAN_PRESENT bit · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 4/6] net/bpf_jit: PPC: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN_TCI · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
[PATCH net-next 6/6] net: remove VLAN_TAG_PRESENT · Michał Mirosław · 2018-11-10
David Miller · 2018-11-10
Alexei Starovoitov · 2018-11-17
David Miller · 2018-11-17
Daniel Borkmann · 2018-11-19
David Miller · 2018-11-17
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