netdev - RE: [PATCH] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:33:30 +0000
From:	Philip Downey <pdowney@...cade.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cong Wang [mailto:cwang@...pensource.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 10:20 PM
> To: Philip Downey
> Cc: David Miller; Alexey Kuznetsov; James Morris; Hideaki YOSHIFUJI; Patrick
> McHardy; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; netdev
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Philip Downey <pdowney@...cade.com>
> wrote:
> > IGMP reports for local multicast groups can now be optionally
> > inhibited by means of a system control variable (by setting the value
> > to zero) e.g.:
> >     echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports
> >
> > To retain backwards compatibility the previous behaviour is retained
> > by default on system boot or reverted by setting the value back to
> > non-zero e.g.:
> >     echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports
> >
> 
> Please document it in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
Thanks for the comment.
I have generated a new patch for the proposed documentation change.
Hope this is the correct thing to do.

Regards

Philip