Re: [PATCH v0 net-next 1/1] Allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement.

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 19:48:51 EST


On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:58:29 -0800 Praveen Chaudhary wrote:
> For IPv4, default route is learned via DHCPv4 and user is allowed to change
> metric using config etc/network/interfaces. But for IPv6, default route can
> be learned via RA, for which, currently a fixed metric value 1024 is used.
>
> Ideally, user should be able to configure metric on default route for IPv6
> similar to IPv4. This fix adds sysctl for the same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Praveen Chaudhary<pchaudhary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenggen Xu<zxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please put a space between the name and '<'.

I haven't looked at the code yet, but I can tell you this patch
triggers a few checkpatch --strict warnings, and breaks allmodconfig
build.