netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Add comment that early

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Add comment that early_demux can change
 via sysctl

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:14:20 -0700

> Twice patches trying to constify inet{6}_protocol have been reverted:
> 39294c3df2a8 ("Revert "ipv6: constify inet6_protocol structures"") to
> revert 3a3a4e3054137 and then 03157937fe0b5 ("Revert "ipv4: make
> net_protocol const"") to revert aa8db499ea67.
> 
> Add a comment that the structures can not be const because the
> early_demux field can change based on a sysctl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied.