netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/2] net neigh: Decouple per interface neighbour table controls from binary sysctls

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Message-Id: <20100216.155555.218061146.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:55:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/2] net neigh: Decouple per interface
 neighbour table controls from binary sysctls

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:27:03 -0800

> 
> Stop computing the number of neighbour table settings we have by
> counting the number of binary sysctls.  This behaviour was silly
> and meant that we could not add another neighbour table setting
> without also adding another binary sysctl.
> 
> Don't pass the binary sysctl path for neighour table entries
> into neigh_sysctl_register.  These parameters are no longer
> used and so are just dead code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied.

I bet we can do even better and make it such that even
this NEIGH_VARS_MAX thing isn't needed.

Anyways, thanks for doing this work Eric.
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