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Message-ID: <1410366023-9129-1-git-send-email-sebastien.barre@uclouvain.be>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:20:23 +0200
From:	Sébastien Barré 
	<sebastien.barre@...ouvain.be>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Sébastien Barré 
	<sebastien.barre@...ouvain.be>, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gregory Detal <gregory.detal@...ouvain.be>,
	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] Revert "ipv4: Clarify in docs that accept_local requires rp_filter."

This reverts commit c801e3cc1925 ("ipv4: Clarify in docs that accept_local requires rp_filter.").
It is not needed anymore since commit 1dced6a85482 ("ipv4: Restore accept_local behaviour in fib_validate_source()").

Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc: Gregory Detal <gregory.detal@...ouvain.be>
Cc: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Barré <sebastien.barre@...ouvain.be>

---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index db2383c..1b5581a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -952,14 +952,9 @@ accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
 		FALSE (host)
 
 accept_local - BOOLEAN
-	Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination
-	with suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets
-	between two local interfaces over the wire and have them
-	accepted properly.
-
-	rp_filter must be set to a non-zero value in order for
-	accept_local to have an effect.
-
+	Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
+	suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
+	local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
 	default FALSE
 
 route_localnet - BOOLEAN
-- 
tg: (6618ec6..) net-next/accept_local-update-doc (depends on: net-next/master)
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