Re: [GIT] Networking

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:51:52 +1100

> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:14:21 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, commit b50afd203a5e ("Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net") actually
> merges v4.8 into the net-next tree.

Yes, this is where the change got lost.

I have all of the fixups queued up in my net tree and will send in a pull
request later.