From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [IPV4]: Restore old behaviour of default config values Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070604.233627.45515850.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070605062929.GA12024@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36099 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760684AbXFEGgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:36:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Herbert Xu Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:31:04 +1000 > [IPV4]: Restore old behaviour of default config values > > Previously inet devices were only constructed when addresses are added > (or rarely in ipmr). Therefore the default config values they get are > the ones at the time of these operations. > > Now that we're creating inet devices earlier, this changes the behaviour > of default config values in an incompatible way (see bug #8519). > > This patch creates a compromise by setting the default values at the > same point as before but only for those that have not been explicitly > set by the user since the inet device's creation. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Also applied, thanks a lot.