Subject: Re: [patch net-next 3/5] ipv6: consider net.ipv6.conf.all sysctls when making decisions

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:13:34 -0700

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:19:11 -0400
Milos Vyletel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> As it is right now net.ipv6.conf.all.* are mostly ignored and instead
> we're only making decisions based on interface specific settings. These
> settings are coppied from net.ipv6.conf.default and changing either all
> or default settings have no effect.

Although this is the right idea conceptually, it risks creating unhappy
users because it changes the semantics of the API. This will probably break
somebody's configuration.