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Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes: > > All arp_* have already disappeared.> > Looking at 2.1.78, I see that > > sysctl_arp_timeout> sysctl_arp_max_tries > sysctl_arp_res_time > sysctl_arp_confirm_interval > sysctl_arp_max_pings> sysctl_arp_dead_res_time> > are still used in net/ipv4/arp.c. They are already gone in the vger tree. > I don't object dropping sysctl variables. If you cannot longer support > them, drop them. If you think you need to expose new variables, expose > them. PLEASE don't expose new variables under old names. This is exactly > what Andries Brouwer complained about, and rightly so. Actually they weren't old in 2.1 :) Many of them got introduced into 2.0 long _after_ 2.1 was splitted off. And noone cared about syncing 2.1. That's what you get for adding features to a 'stable' tree. I hope that 2.2 won't do the same mistake. -Andi | ||||||||||||
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