[rds-devel] [PATCH net-next 1/5] RDS: Re-add pf/sol access via sysctl

Wed Aug 14 11:36:19 PDT 2019

On 8/14/19 11:21 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:01:36 -0700
> 
>> Some of the application software was released before 2009 and ended up
>> using these proc entries from downstream kernel. The newer lib/app
>> using RDS don't use these. Unfortunately lot of customer still use
>> Oracle 9, 10, 11 which were released before 2007 and run these apps
>> on modern kernels.
> 
> So those apps are using proc entries that were never upstream...
>
> Sorry, this is completely and utterly inappropriate.
> 
Agree. Unfortunately one of the legacy application library didn't
get upgraded even after the ports were registered with IANA.
Oracle 11 is still very active release and hence this patch.

It is fine to drop $subject patch from this series.

Regards,
Santosh