[Devel] Re: [PATCH 04/10] sysctl: Fix neighbour table sysctls.

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

Hello.

In article <m1zm108axi.fsf_-_ at ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (at Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:56:09 -0600), ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) says:

> 
> - In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on binary
>   sysctl names for a function that works with proc.
> 
> - In neighbour.c reorder the table to put the possibly unused entries
>   at the end so we can remove them by terminating the table early.
> 
> - In neighbour.c kill the entries with questionable binary sysctl
>   handling behavior.
> 
> - In neighbour.c if we don't have a strategy routine remove the
>   binary path.  So we don't the default sysctl strategy routine
>   on data that is not ready for it.
> 

I disagree.  It is bad to remove existing interface.
Ditto for other patches.

Regards,

--yoshfuji