Comment 17 for bug 1494423

The primary 6 commits are currently requiring 22 prerequisite commits and still require addition patches. Some of those commits change core networking and the sk_buff struct.

The following prereq commit required extensive backporting:
commit b1937227316417aa7568d01e6fa1f272e98fb890
Author: Eric Dumazet <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 28 22:18:47 2014 -0700

    net: reorganize sk_buff for faster __copy_skb_header()

Due to this need to change core networking, approval for a stable release update would not be acked.