netdev - Re: net: evaluate net.ipvX.conf.all.* sysctls

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Message-ID: <20201111164314.50eff5d8@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:43:14 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.ch>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: net: evaluate net.ipvX.conf.all.* sysctls

On Sat,  7 Nov 2020 20:35:12 +0100 Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Some per-interface sysctls are ignoring the "all" variant. This
> patchset fixes some of them when such a sysctl is handled as a
> boolean. This includes:
> 
>  - net.ipvX.conf.all.disable_policy
>  - net.ipvX.conf.all.disable_policy.disable_xfrm
>  - net.ipv4.conf.all.proxy_arp_pvlan
>  - net.ipvX.conf.all.ignore_routes_with_linkdown
> 
> Two sysctls are still ignoring the "all" variant as it wouldn't make
> much sense for them:
> 
>  - net.ipv4.conf.all.tag
>  - net.ipv4.conf.all.medium_id
> 
> Ideally, the "all" variant should be removed, but there is no simple
> alternative to DEVINET_SYSCTL_* macros that would allow one to not
> expose and "all" entry.

Applied to net-next, thanks.

Let's see if anyone complains..