netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2 0/5] neigh: respect default parms values

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Date:	Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:56:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, bcrl@...ck.org, gaofeng@...fujitsu.com,
	joe@...ches.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/5] neigh: respect default parms values

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Sat,  7 Dec 2013 19:26:52 +0100

> This is a long standing regression. But since the patchset is bigger and
> the regression happened in 2007, I'm proposing this to net-next instead.
> 
> Basically the problem is that if user wants to use /etc/sysctl.conf to specify
> default values of neigh related params, he is not able to do that.
> 
> The reason is that the default values are copied to dev instance right after
> netdev is registered. And that is way to early. The original behaviour
> for ipv4 was that this happened after first address was assigned to device.
> For ipv6 this was apparently from the very beginning.
> 
> So this patchset basically reverts the behaviour back to what it was in 2007 for
> ipv4 and changes the behaviour for ipv6 so they are both the same.
> 
> v1->v2:
> - use neigh_parms->tbl->family as suggested by davem

Series applied, thanks Jiri.
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