Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

David Miller wrote:
>
>> Subject        : Settings to /proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/conf/all are
>> not propagated. via sysctl too
>> Submitter     : Serge van den Boom <svdb+linux-kernel-bugs@stack.nl>
>> References    : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9224
>> Handled-By    : Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
>
> I am to understand, from a reply from Herbert Xu, that this issue has
> existed a long time, definitely since before 2.6.22, therefore it
> doesn't belong on the regression list.

I'm fairly sure that this originates with 2.6.21 as it looks very similar to
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8519
which I filed at that time and which I traced to 8030f54499925d07.

I've never been convinced that that change was correct, but as it now "works
for me" due to changes in the Debian default configuration files, I decided
to not follow up.

Of course, not honoring 'all' is more obviously a bug than not honoring
'default' for existing interfaces.

I've added a comment to #8519.

Hope this helps,
Frans Pop