From: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:46:57 +0100

Since this patch has already proven to break existing setups, I think
it should be reverted or the behaviour made optional with a default to
off.

Absolutely, and fully, agreed.  That is the only criteria for
deciding what to do here, it worked for an enormously long
time and it stopped doing so with the change in question.

"that configuration doesn't make sense" and other such talk
is completely irrelevant.