netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: add sysctl to disable rfc4862 5.5.3e lifetime handling

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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:51:34 +0900
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Patrick Rohr <prohr@...gle.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Linux Network Development Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jen Linkova <furry@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: add sysctl to disable rfc4862 5.5.3e
 lifetime handling

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 2:20 AM Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe accept_ra_pinfo_low_lifetime ? Consistent with the existing
> > accept_ra_pinfo which controls whether PIOs are accepted.
>
> accept_ra... is about whether to accept or drop/ignore an RA or
> portion there-of.

Not only. For example, accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen and
accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen control which prefix lengths will be
accepted in RIOs.

If we want to make it an integer, then we could call it
accept_ra_pinfo_min_valid_lft.