netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] RDS: Re-add pf/sol access via sysctl

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Message-Id: <20190814.212525.326606319186601317.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:25:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gerd.rausch@...cle.com
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, dledford@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] RDS: Re-add pf/sol access via sysctl

From: Gerd Rausch <gerd.rausch@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:45:21 -0700

> a) It is utterly inappropriate to have Oracle applications
>    rely on a /proc/sys API that was kept out of Upstream-Linux
>    for this long

Yes.

> 
> b) It is utterly inappropriate to include such a /proc/sys API
>    that Oracle applications have depended on this late

Also yes.