Re: Please backport bridge multicast exponential field encoding fix series to 6.1.y/6.6.y/6.12.y/6.18.y/7.0.y

[Ujjal Roy]

> We asked to target these patches at net-next because they don't fix a
> regression (the encoding never worked correctly), so they are not
> relevant for stable. Users that require this functionality should
> upgrade to a new kernel that contains the patches.
>
Hmm, understood!

> Regarding the stable-specific patch, in my experience, stable
> maintainers don't accept such patches and prefer to backport patches
> from upstream, even if it results in more changes.

Then I feel we can skip the changes for stable now. Hi Greg, skip this
thread and the changes from it. Will be in touch!