On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:51 +0900, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:15 -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > > I'm still opposed on the grounds that there may be people relying on > > the current behaviour. > > That is not my call, but I can tell you that I wrote this patch in > response to a report from several carriers that were complaining that > Linux' mangling code was completely broken and unusable. > > From my experience, we are in a situation where people used to IPv4's > mangling code are starting to migrate to IPv6 only to find out that some > of their iptables rules do not work as expected, the reason (unknown to > them) being that IPv6's DSCP mangling code was not implemented according > to the documentation. > > I would think that the benefit of fixing this outweighs the risk of > breaking some systems relying on the current behavior, which is the > opposite of what the documentation says and what its IPv4 counterpart > does.
As an aside, we could even add a note to the relevant man page saying that the IPv6 DSCP mangle code used to be broken but not anymore (it has been done before). _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
