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Message-ID: <50EACCD3.90609@openwrt.org>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:25:39 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sctp: Change defaults on cookie hmac selection

Hello Neil,

Le 12/15/12 02:22, Neil Horman a écrit :
> Recently I posted commit 3c68198e75 which made selection of the cookie hmac
> algorithm selectable.  This is all well and good, but Linus noted that it
> changes the default config:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=135536629004808&w=2
>
> I've modified the sctp Kconfig file to reflect the recommended way of making
> this choice, using the thermal driver example specified, and brought the
> defaults back into line with the way they were prior to my origional patch
>
> Also, on Linus' suggestion, re-adding ability to select default 'none' hmac
> algorithm, so we don't needlessly bloat the kernel by forcing a non-none
> default.  This also led me to note that we won't honor the default none
> condition properly because of how sctp_net_init is encoded.  Fix that up as
> well.
>
> Tested by myself (allbeit fairly quickly).  All configuration combinations seems
> to work soundly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
> CC: linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>   net/sctp/Kconfig    | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   net/sctp/protocol.c |  4 ++--
>   2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/Kconfig b/net/sctp/Kconfig
> index a9edd2e..c262106 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/sctp/Kconfig
> @@ -66,12 +66,36 @@ config SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT
>   	  'cat /proc/net/sctp/sctp_dbg_objcnt'
>
>   	  If unsure, say N
> +choice
> +	prompt "Default SCTP cookie HMAC encoding"
> +	default SCTP_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5

Should not this be SCTP_DEFAULT_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5? I just tried to update 
to 3.8-rc2, and I usually build my kernel-headers with:

yes '' | ARCH=foo make oldconfig

and this just kept asking me for this config symbol because none could 
be provided.
--
Florian
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