netdev - Re: [PATCH] igmp: Make igmp group member RFC 3376 compliant

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Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mtesar@...hat.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, kaber@...sh.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igmp: Make igmp group member RFC 3376 compliant

From: Michal Tesar <mtesar@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:38:34 +0100

>  2. If the received Query is a General Query, the interface timer is
>     used to schedule a response to the General Query after the
>     selected delay.  Any previously pending response to a General
>     Query is canceled.
> --8<--
> 
> Currently the timer is rearmed with new random expiration time for
> every incoming query regardless of possibly already pending report.
> Which is not aligned with the above RFE.

I don't read it that way.  #2 says if this is a general query then any
pending response to a general query is cancelled.  And that's
effectively what the code is doing right now.