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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-12-05 11:48:58 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-12-12 14:19:05 -0800
commit5098462fbac60cbec76171a8b4998a36b85891a1 (patch)
treee9d6b62251ba4a670216f12390cc1ccad8148569 /Documentation/networking
parentf3674384709b69c5cd8c4597b8bd73ea7bd0236f (diff)
parent150b567e0d572342ef08bace7ee7aff80fd75327 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.13-rc3). No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -2184,6 +2184,12 @@ nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN
understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full
performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion
and extraneous notifications.
+
+ Note that as a backward-compatible mode, dumping of modern features
+ might be incomplete or wrong. For example, resilient groups will not be
+ shown as such, but rather as just a list of next hops. Also weights that
+ do not fit into 8 bits will show incorrectly.
+
Default: true (backward compat mode)
fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER