On Monday 20 April 2015 11:32:23 Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Friday, April 17, 2015 18:34:16 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > From: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > batman-adv calls netdev_master_upper_dev_link() which is replaced with
> > with
> > netdev_set_master() for kernels older than 3.9 via compat.h.
> > Prior to 2.6.39 netdev_set_master() contained Linux bonding calls needed
> > to
> > setup bonding devices. Calling this function from batman-adv leads to
> > unexpected behavior when current batman-adv versions are used on these
> > older kernels.
> > 
> > To fix the situation compat.h now ships its own implementation of
> > netdev_set_master() which does not change the net_dev->master state
> > on kernels older than 2.6.39.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Andreas Pape <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > 
> >  compat.h | 9 +++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> I have already cherry-picked that patch myself.

Depends on your definition of "already". It was not cherry-picked when I've 
sent this patch. The commit you are referring to was cherry-picked 25 minutes 
before you wrote this mail and my patch was send 5160 minutes before your 
mail.

Kind regard,s
        Sven

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