netdev - Re: linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1?

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Message-Id: <20100504.143921.149656301.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 04 May 2010 14:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlstevens@...ibm.com
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, enh@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux kernel's IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS default is 64; should be 1?

From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:12:59 -0700

> But if the default is different for each destination or interface in
> the multicast case (ie, by adding conf settings for mcast), then
> it really should do late binding and leave it as "-1" in the set, right?
> That's what I thought it was already doing, but apparently not;
> I think it used to, but maybe I just didn't notice.

Unlike other people in this thread who sometimes aren't even checking
how the current code works, I checked all of the available source
control history in this area and this code has always behaved this way.

Right from day one.
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