From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Subject: Re: [PATCH for kernel 3.4.x 0/1] net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of multicast resolicitations in PROBE state Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:06:43 +0900 Message-ID: <55114543.2080709@miraclelinux.com> References: <1427190355-1216-1-git-send-email-Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com To: Zhu Yanjun , lizefan@huawei.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ulf.samuelsson@ericsson.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, Alexandre.Dietsch@windriver.com Return-path: Received: from exprod7og119.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.16]:47361 "HELO exprod7og119.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751814AbbCXLGs (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:06:48 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id c3so218163187pdn.0 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 04:06:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1427190355-1216-1-git-send-email-Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Zhu Yanjun wrote: > This patch is for the kernel 4.0. But kernel 3.4 needs this patch, too. So this patch is backported. > There are the following modifications: > 1. Because the mothod to set sysctl is different between kernel 3.4 and kernel 4.0, in this patch, the sysctl method is changed; > 2. Because the variables of mcast_resolicit is different, in this patch, the function neigh_max_probes is changed; > 3. Because there are so many modifications in this patch, so the author is changed to me; > > Zhu Yanjun (1): > net: neighbour: Add mcast_resolicit to configure the number of > multicast resolicitations in PROBE state > > include/linux/neighbour.h | 1 + > include/net/neighbour.h | 1 + > net/core/neighbour.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- > 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > Hmm, it needs additional knob to change this 10+-year-old behavior. I am not for backporting this to old stable kernels unless all stable kernels supports this knob as well. -- Hideaki Yoshifuji Technical Division, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION