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Bug#965074: Patches to make multicast proccesing on CDC NCM drivers



El 02/09/20 a las 17:45, Greg KH escribió:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:27:28PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > El 02/09/20 a las 14:05, Greg KH escribió:
> > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > > > El 30/07/20 a las 16:07, Oliver Neukum escribió:
> > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2020, 15:53 +0200 schrieb Santiago Ruano
> > > > > Rincón:
…
> > > > 
> > > > It would be possible to apply/backport Miguel's patches (along with
> > > > 5fd99b5d9950d6300467ded18ff4e44af0b4ae55) to stable versions please?
> > > 
> > > I don't see that git commit id in Linus's tree, are you sure it is
> > > correct?
> > 
> > I should had mention it is found in linux-next, sorry. Please see
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969365#10
> 
> Ah, nothing I can do with patches that are not yet in Linus's tree.
> 

ACK.

> > > > FWIW, in the context of Debian, I'm personally interested in 4.19.y.
> > > 
> > > What specific list of commits are you wanting to see backported?
> > 
> > This:
> > 
> > 37a2ebdd9e597ae1a0270ac747883ea8f6f767b6
> > e10dcb1b6ba714243ad5a35a11b91cc14103a9a9
> > e506addeff844237d60545ef4f6141de21471caf
> > 0226009ce0f6089f9b31211f7a2703cf9a327a01
> 
> These do not look like bugfixes, but a new feature being added for this
> driver.  So why not just use a newer kernel version for this feature?

From my point of view as user these are bugfixes, since IPv6 NDP or any
other protocol relying on multicast do not work without them. In other
words, my computer's networking is broken.

I want to have them in linux stable releases because that would make
easier to include them in Debian stable release.

Thanks!

 -- Santiago

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