Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Oct 05 2016 - 22:14:28 EST


On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Except that commit effectively moved that function from
> net/netfilter/nf_tables_netdev.c to
> include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv4.h while commit c73c24849011
> ("netfilter: nf_tables_netdev: remove redundant ip_hdr assignment")
> removed the assignment in the original file (and has been in your tree
> since v4.8-rc7) and that is where I originally actually got a conflict.

Oh, interesting. Why didn't I get the conflict there then?

I'm guessing (but too lazy to actually look up the history), that
David ended up doing that merge and that ends up being why I never saw
a conflict.

Linus