On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:32:17PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
> Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > Dear NetDevs
> > 
> > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack.
> > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and presents
> > it cleared to userspace (even via AF_PACKET/tcpdump when hw-accelerated).
> > 
> > This uses a new vlan_present bit in struct skbuff, and removes an assumption
> > that vlan_proto != 0 when VLAN tag is present.
> > 
> > As I can't test most of the driver changes, please look at them carefully.
> > 
> > The series is supposed to be bisect-friendly and that requires temporary
> > insertion of #define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT in BPF code to be able to split
> > JIT changes per architecture.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Michał Mirosław
> > 
> > v2: rebase onto net-next
> 
> This patch series is really way too large.
> 
> You're going to have to find a way to combine related changes, or submit
> this as a series of logical sets, one at a time.

The dependency graph is really sparse: main patch 25 depends on all previous,
19-23 all depend only on 18 and 26 depends on 25.

That's it. So the question is: how would it be easier for you to manage?

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

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