netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] sctp: Change defaults on cookie hmac selection

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:16:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	vyasevich@...il.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sctp: Change defaults on cookie hmac selection

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:22:01 -0500

> Recently I posted commit 3c68198e75 which made selection of the cookie hmac
> algorithm selectable.  This is all well and good, but Linus noted that it
> changes the default config:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=135536629004808&w=2
> 
> I've modified the sctp Kconfig file to reflect the recommended way of making
> this choice, using the thermal driver example specified, and brought the
> defaults back into line with the way they were prior to my origional patch
> 
> Also, on Linus' suggestion, re-adding ability to select default 'none' hmac
> algorithm, so we don't needlessly bloat the kernel by forcing a non-none
> default.  This also led me to note that we won't honor the default none
> condition properly because of how sctp_net_init is encoded.  Fix that up as
> well.
> 
> Tested by myself (allbeit fairly quickly).  All configuration combinations seems
> to work soundly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

Applied.
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