netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Support more than 32 MIFS

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Date:   Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mark.tomlinson@...iedtelesis.co.nz
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Support more than 32 MIFS

From: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:27:34 +1200

> As background to this patch, we have MAXMIFS set to 1025 in our kernel.

This patch is pointless without that adjustment, so it really doesn't
belong upstream until you tackle the whole entire problem and therefore
make the limit able to be set higher or at run time.

I'm not applying this.