netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: allocate ipv4_devconf memory for init

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:09:35 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv4: allocate ipv4_devconf memory for
 init_net

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:06:39 -0800

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:24 AM <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>>
>> The devconf setting on the init_net will affect other
>> namespace when them created. For example:
 ...
> This has been a known issue for a long time. There
> were several attempts to fix this.
> 
> The concern here is whether it breaks existing applications'
> expectation with the change like yours. There was a proposal
> introduces a new /proc file to control this behavior, I forget
> why it is not accepted either. Please check netdev archives.

Please see:

	https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/488675/

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