From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARP Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:13:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100119.031343.44943528.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100119100913.65177497@opy.nosense.org> <20100119.021138.172154379.davem@davemloft.net> <20100119211818.28f48713@opy.nosense.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: opurdila@ixiacom.com, ja@ssi.bg, chavey@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44139 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178Ab0ASLNf (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:13:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100119211818.28f48713@opy.nosense.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Mark Smith Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:18:18 +1030 > ARP_ACCEPT / the /proc "arp_accept" file is really confusingly named - > unless you knew better I doubt anybody would guess it's only referring > to GARPs. Is there any chance of renaming it or symlinking a new name > of something like "garp_accept" to the old one? Is this a significant > enough behaviour change that it creates that opportunity? It's been there forever, it's well documented, and creating symlinks is messy. So no.