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: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:06:02 +0900 Message-ID: <5511EDDA.5080105@miraclelinux.com> References: <1427190355-1216-1-git-send-email-Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com> <55114543.2080709@miraclelinux.com> <20150324.115938.688597808655372422.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com, Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com, lizefan@huawei.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ulf.samuelsson@ericsson.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, Alexandre.Dietsch@windriver.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from exprod7og125.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.28]:47412 "HELO exprod7og125.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751928AbbCXXGG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:06:06 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c3so7911980pdn.0 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:06:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150324.115938.688597808655372422.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:06:43 +0900 > >> 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. > > It is not appropriate for -stable at all. > I thought some people might say that it was a long-standing bug, but I totally agree with you, Dave. --yoshfuji