netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] ipv6: make unsolicited report intervals configurable for mld

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:09:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	william.manley@...view.com, bcrl@...ck.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] ipv6: make unsolicited report intervals
 configurable for mld

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 01:03:46 +0200

> Commit cab70040dfd95ee32144f02fade64f0cb94f31a0 ("net: igmp:
> Reduce Unsolicited report interval to 1s when using IGMPv3") and
> 2690048c01f32bf45d1c1e1ab3079bc10ad2aea7 ("net: igmp: Allow user-space
> configuration of igmp unsolicited report interval") by William Manley made
> igmp unsolicited report intervals configurable per interface and corrected
> the interval of unsolicited igmpv3 report messages resendings to 1s.
> 
> Same needs to be done for IPv6:
> 
> MLDv1 (RFC2710 7.10.): 10 seconds
> MLDv2 (RFC3810 9.11.): 1 second
> 
> Both intervals are configurable via new procfs knobs
> mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval and mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval.
> 
> (also added .force_mld_version to ipv6_devconf_dflt to bring structs in
> line without semantic changes)
> 
> v2:
> a) Joined documentation update for IPv4 and IPv6 MLD/IGMP
>    unsolicited_report_interval procfs knobs.
> b) incorporate stylistic feedback from William Manley
> 
> v3:
> a) add new DEVCONF_* values to the end of the enum (thanks to David
>    Miller)
> 
> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Cc: William Manley <william.manley@...view.com>
> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied, thanks.
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