From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it? Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:33 -0800 Message-ID: <4F1C78F1.2070409@candelatech.com> References: <4F1AFA84.5050201@candelatech.com> <20120121.134036.1565691107664746948.davem@davemloft.net> <4F1C3DF5.8070802@candelatech.com> <20120122.141447.1622071157220040891.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:47173 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752389Ab2AVVAs (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120122.141447.1622071157220040891.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/22/2012 11:14 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Greear > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:48:53 -0800 > >> Just to make sure I understand you: You dislike any possible method >> of changing the behaviour, not just the ones I listed? > > That's correct. > > And please don't create dependencies on such a change in behavior in > distributions, otherwise you obliterate the entire reason why I don't > want the behavior changed. No worries, I don't have a real distribution and I can't imagine any real distribution picking up my changes against your wishes. Just to be safe, I'll default any changes to the current behaviour. > There is no reason to change this, it's been like this for more than > 10 years and no alien planet has exploded as a result even after all > of this time. Well, it breaks my (proprietary, and already optimized for my own kernel hacks) user-space program, and though I could add hacks to fix it eventually, I think it will be much easier to hack the kernel. > Just leave it be, I beg you. I think you may be over-estimating my influence :) I have much more horrible patches I've been carrying for years and years and as you say, the alien planets are all doing ok. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com