From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271255AbTG2Es7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:48:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271245AbTG2Es7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:48:59 -0400 Received: from uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com ([209.162.142.38]:45318 "EHLO warez.scriptkiddie.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271240AbTG2Es5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:48:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:48:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist To: Bill Davidsen Cc: "David S. Miller" , Carlos Velasco , bloemsaa@xs4all.nl, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, layes@loran.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030728213933.F81299@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > > This particular case has been discussed to death in the past > > and I really recommend people read up there before dragging this > > out further. > > It will keep coming back because it's a real problem. I do agree that the > hidden patch is not the desired way to solve the problem, but until there > is a reasonable (not requiring a guru or large manual effort) solution > people will keep bringing it up. And it severely violates the principle of least surprise. Its unfortunate that this principle isn't more widely discussed and considered on lkml.