netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6 addrconf: disallow rtr

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Message-Id: <20161004.003831.2056791273400961514.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     zenczykowski@...il.com
Cc:     maze@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ek@...gle.com,
        lorenzo@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6 addrconf: disallow rtr_solicits < -1

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Date: Sun,  2 Oct 2016 23:41:57 -0700

> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> This disallows setting /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/router_solicitations
> to values below -1.
> 
> -1 continues to mean an unlimited number of retransmits.
> 
> Note: this depends on 'ipv6 addrconf: remove addrconf_sysctl_hop_limit()'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Please remove the const qualifier and the casts to be consistent
with how we handle this elsewhere.

Thanks.