Bug#965074: Patches to make multicast proccesing on CDC NCM drivers
Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiago.ruano-rincon@imt-atlantique.fr> writes:
> 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:
>>
>> > 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 was in doubt when I submitted these, but ended up specfying net-next
instead of net+stable as the target for a reason. This is a new feature
as Greg says. Even if the feature is essential for your use case, it is
still new. "Has never been supported" isn't really a bug.
And I am still convinced that my decision was correct. The patches are
a bit more intrusive than I'd be comfortable submitting to stable, as
was demonstrated by the stupid build bug I added... Fixed by commit
5fd99b5d9950 ("net: cdc_ncm: Fix build error") BTW.
> I want to have them in linux stable releases because that would make
> easier to include them in Debian stable release.
This has not been an absolute requirement in the past. Distros tend to
have a more relaxed stable policy.
Using a newer kernel until Debian moves on is obviously also an option.
Bjørn
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