RE: [PATCH] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups

[Philip Downey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cong Wang [mailto:cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 10:20 PM
> To: Philip Downey
> Cc: David Miller; Alexey Kuznetsov; James Morris; Hideaki YOSHIFUJI; Patrick
> McHardy; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IGMP: Inhibit reports for local multicast groups
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Philip Downey <pdowney@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > IGMP reports for local multicast groups can now be optionally
> > inhibited by means of a system control variable (by setting the value
> > to zero) e.g.:
> >     echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports
> >
> > To retain backwards compatibility the previous behaviour is retained
> > by default on system boot or reverted by setting the value back to
> > non-zero e.g.:
> >     echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports
> >
> 
> Please document it in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
Thanks for the comment.
I have generated a new patch for the proposed documentation change.
Hope this is the correct thing to do.

Regards

Philip