On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 16:06 -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:40:50 +0200 > > > The patch only unified the behaviour so everyone know what to expect > > regardless of the device type. > > +1 > > And reverting this behavior back is going to hurt more people than it > will help, so I am not going to apply this, sorry.
Would a /proc/net/vlan sysctl to control the switch from the new to the old behavior (with default to the new) make this acceptable ? Recent users will not be affected, and users of the old behavior could manage kernel upgrade without breaking their applications. Thank you, Paolo
