netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/4] [IPV4]: Restore old behaviour of default config values

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [IPV4]: Restore old behaviour of default config
 values

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:31:04 +1000

> [IPV4]: Restore old behaviour of default config values
> 
> Previously inet devices were only constructed when addresses are added
> (or rarely in ipmr).  Therefore the default config values they get are
> the ones at the time of these operations.
> 
> Now that we're creating inet devices earlier, this changes the behaviour
> of default config values in an incompatible way (see bug #8519).
> 
> This patch creates a compromise by setting the default values at the
> same point as before but only for those that have not been explicitly
> set by the user since the inet device's creation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Also applied, thanks a lot.
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