From: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:33:43 -0700
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]> > > This is an effective no-op in terms of user observable behaviour. > > By preventing the overwrite of non-null extra1/extra2 fields > in addrconf_sysctl() we can enable the use of proc_dointvec_minmax(). > > This allows us to eliminate the constant min/max (1..255) trampoline > function that is addrconf_sysctl_hop_limit(). > > This is nice because it simplifies the code, and allows future > sysctls with constant min/max limits to also not require trampolines. > > We still can't eliminate the trampoline for mtu because it isn't > actually a constant (it depends on other tunables of the device) > and thus requires at-write-time logic to enforce range. > > Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]> Applied, thanks.
