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Message-Id: <20090416.151641.220683663.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cl@...ux.com
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com, dlstevens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list

From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:12:43 -0400 (EDT)

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Neil Horman wrote:
> 
>> I'm sorry, I misread it (confused the definiton of a bitfield with its default
>> value.  As Dave noted, the default needs to be the current behavior, not your
>> new behavior.  Until thats changed, I rescind my Ack
> 
> Well guess then we need the global proc setting after all.

No Christoph, do this right.

Linux by default will behave the way it has for 15+ years.  And if an
application wants new behavior, you have to ask for it.

End of story.
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