From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: [PATCH] Disable multipath cache routing Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:52:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20060520025243.GA9486@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.212]:3767 "HELO smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964802AbWETCwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 22:52:46 -0400 To: netdev Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Apparently IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED isn't entirely safe to use and will oops the kernel "sooner or later". The Kconfig comment says EXPERIMENTAL but it's not. Let's go further and mark it BROKEN for now (leaving the comment as-is though). If nobody steps up to resurrect this code we can discuss removing it entirely. Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 011cca7..3a08b9e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED bool "IP: equal cost multipath with caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH + depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH && BROKEN help Normally, equal cost multipath routing is not supported by the routing cache. If you say Y here, alternative routes are cached