linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:53:16 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	michael@...e-electrons.com, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:48 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:41:55 +0100,
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> a écrit :
> 
> > The config option probably lives in net/Kconfig, not init/Kconfig.
> 
> Yes, it could. But AFAIK, until now, all CONFIG_EMBEDDED-related
> options have been put in init/Kconfig. But if it's preferred, I can of
> course change the patch to move the config option to net/Kconfig.

It clearly lives in net/Kconfig.

> > And please could you make it clear how this interacts with
> > IP_MULTICAST?
> > 
> > We already have a CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST option, for which the help text
> > says "For more people, it's safe to say N'. And I think it defaults to
> > that too. What more does CONFIG_IGMP remove? It's not made clear by
> > the help text.
> 
> The interaction of IGMP support with CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is fairly
> unclear to me.
> 
> A large portion of igmp.c is already under #ifdef CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST:
> all the igmp_*() functions, amongst which is igmp_rcv(), referenced in
> igmp_protocol in net/ipv4/af_inet.c, which is compiled-out
> when !CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST.
> 
> All the proc-related code at the end of the file is only conditionnaly
> compiled on CONFIG_PROC_FS, but seems to in fact be only used if both
> CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST and CONFIG_PROC_FS are selected:
> igmp_mc_proc_init() in net/ipv4/ip_output.c is only called when
> CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST and CONFIG_PROC_FS are selected.
> 
> Besides that, it's unclear to me why the ip_mc_*() functions are useful
> when !CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST, but I'm probably missing something. 

Most of them aren't, as far as I can tell. 

> They are used to implement setsockopt-operations related to multicast,
> hooks for the routing code to handle multicast-related traffic, etc.

I wonder if those options should return errors now, rather than silently
failing but returning zero. Or maybe that _would_ cause a stock build of
ntpd to fail? Not that it really matters if it _does_, though.

It sounds like 'CONFIG_IGMP' is a bad name for the option, too -- and
the help text is similarly misleading. I think you need to work out how
it all fits together with CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST, fix it up, and resubmit
it.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation



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