[Bridge] [PATCH -next] bridge: depends on INET

Randy Dunlap randy.dunlap at oracle.com
Wed Mar 3 20:00:22 PST 2010


On 03/03/10 19:18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at xenotime.net>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:08:23 -0800
>>
>>> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com>
>>>
>>> br_multicast calls ip_send_check(), so it should depend on INET.
>>>
>>> built-in:
>>> br_multicast.c:(.text+0x88cf4): undefined reference to `ip_send_check'
>>>
>>> or modular:
>>> ERROR: "ip_send_check" [net/bridge/bridge.ko] undefined!
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com>
>>
>> Applied, but I almost lost this patch.
>>
>> You need to CC: netdev on all networking patches so that it
>> gets properly tracked in patchwork and therefore does not get
>> lost.
> 
> I suspect Randy went by the MAINTAINERS entry - you might want to add netdev 
> as a second 'L:' line:
> 
>  ETHERNET BRIDGE
>  M:      Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at linux-foundation.org>
>  L:      bridge at lists.linux-foundation.org
>  W:      http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Bridge
>  S:      Maintained
>  F:      include/linux/netfilter_bridge/
>  F:      net/bridge/
> 
> To make it really clear that netdev must be Cc:-ed for those patches.

Ack that.  I also expected Stephen to merge it...

-- 
~Randy


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