On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 12:55 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I forgot do mention that the patches are cherry-picked from davem's > > net-next tree. > > So are they headed into 3.14, or 3.15 at this point? > > Clearly they don't seem to be stable material and it's not immediately > obvious to me why this is urgent. I'm not saying we can't grab these, > because they do look like they fix actual problems, but is the problem > urgent enough to carry these patches out-of-tree? > > Also, F20 will be moving to 3.13.y around the 3.13.1 timeframe, which > is likely in about 2 weeks or so. Do you foresee major problems with > that rebase if these are grabbed for F20 now? > > josh Hi, these patches are useful to NetworkManager. NetworkManager does IPv6 SLAAC in user space, and without these patches, NM cannot create IPv6 private addresses. So, NetworkManager users on Fedora20 have no IPv6 privacy. I personally think, this feature is important to those users. [1] might be a suitable write-up, how these patches relate to NetworkManager. Thomas [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705170#c5
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