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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TTL target goes mainline ?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:41:27 +0200
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Harald Welte wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:43:55PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Why not, people can just as easy shoot themselves using bridging or
>>tc actions. But I'm not sure about enabling only parts of functionality
>>without CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, why not simply depend entirely on it?
> 
> 
> because decrementing the TTL is considered safe, routers do it all the day ;)

Sure :) I just think its nicer than to enable "sub-functionality" by
config options, so if its there, its usable. I also don't think there
are people who actually have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled, so in
the end, we just save a few ifdefs in the code.