netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Restrict connection table size via Kconfig

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Message-ID: <20080908235232.GH13048@verge.net.au>
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:52:33 +1000
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Julius Volz <juliusv@...gle.com>
Cc:	Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Restrict connection table size via Kconfig

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Sven Wegener wrote:
> > Instead of checking the value in include/net/ip_vs.h, we can just
> > restrict the range in our Kconfig file. This will prevent values outside
> > of the range early.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
> > ---
> >  include/net/ip_vs.h   |   10 +---------
> >  net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig |    3 ++-
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > Don't know if we really should remove the check in ip_vs.h, but to some
> > part we should trust our own code.
> 
> Seems ok!

I agree, this sounds entirely reasonable to me.

> > Based on lvs-next.

Thanks, applied.
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