netdev - Re: CONFIG_ARPD help text

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Message-Id: <20090611.205906.215886308.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:59:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	timo.teras@....fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_ARPD help text

From: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:28:21 +0300

> I just re-read again the CONFIG_ARPD help text. It says it's
> "experimental and also obsolete".
> 
> But as opennhrp relies on this, and has shown the usefulness for
> this interface - it can be used to implement other protocols that
> resolve neighbor address than ARP in userland. In this case the
> NHRP protocol.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to remove the designation as "obsolete"?
> 
> Also, I'm running the opennhrp on production with reasonable
> size network (100+ nodes in gre subnet). And with the fix I sent
> previously it seems to work very stable. Is there something more
> to be done, or could the "experimental" marking be removed also?
> 
> I could also update the help to explain where the option is useful.
> Or should the option be renamed to something like NEIGH_NETLINK?
> It also seems that IPv6 supports CONFIG_ARPD so it should probably
> be moved from net/ipv4/Kconfig to likely net/core/Kconfig?

I think it's rediculious to have these tags on something that's
been in active, useful, use for years.  Feel free to remove them
and to expand the help text.

Thanks!
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