From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH] route: ignore RTAX_HOPLIMIT of value -1 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:48:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20151210084846.5f31b140@xeon-e3> References: <564c2ede04884ee5905825d6363107a2@HQ1WP-EXMB11.corp.brocade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Phil Sutter Return-path: Received: from mx0a-000f0801.pphosted.com ([67.231.144.122]:34786 "EHLO mx0a-000f0801.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751860AbbLJQsm (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:48:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <564c2ede04884ee5905825d6363107a2@HQ1WP-EXMB11.corp.brocade.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:50:22 +0000 Phil Sutter wrote: > Older kernels use -1 internally as indicator to use the sysctl default, > but they still export the setting. Newer kernels use 0 to indicate that > (which is why the conversion from -1 to 0 was done here), but they also > stopped exporting the value. Since the meaning of -1 is clear, treat it > equally like default on newer kernels (which is to not print anything). > > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter > --- > ip/iproute.c | 17 ++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Applied, thanks