Subject: Re: RFC: consistent disable_xfrm behaviour

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:20:33 +0100

James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> 
>>disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
>>
>>        Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
>>
>>Opinions?
> 
> 
> Looks good to me, wonder what the original rationale was, though.

Me too. It was introduced by this patch:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@3dcb777f4YjzKm-lG0COu5u-oTLEWA?nav=index.html|src/|src/net|src/net/ipv4|related/net/ipv4/route.c

which only mentions the loopback device, in which case it
doesn't matter.

Alexey, do you remember what the original intent of this was?