netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] net: bridge: mcast: QRI must be less than QI

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Message-ID: <YW/tLekS17ZF9/w1@Laptop-X1>
Date:   Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:19:25 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        roopa@...dia.com, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] net: bridge: mcast: QRI must be less than QI

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:49:17PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Nacked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
> 
> I think we just discussed this a day ago? It is the same problem -
> while we all agree the values should follow the RFC, users have had
> the option to set any values forever (even non-RFC compliant ones).
> This change risks breaking user-space.

OK, I misunderstood your reply in last mail. I thought you only object to
disabling no meaning values(e.g. set timer to 0, which not is forbid by the
RFC). I don't know you also reject to follow a *MUST* rule defined in the RFC.
> 
> Users are free to follow the RFC or not, we can't force them at this
> point. This should've been done when the config option was added long
> time ago.

OK, I will stop working on this path.

Thanks
Hangbin