Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53247; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/53247 CVS commit: src/sys
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 19:35:32 +0700

     Date:        Sat, 12 May 2018 06:05:41 -0600
     From:        Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20180512120541.GA1371%nyx.net@localhost>
 
   | I've tested the dhcpcd patch alone and the dhcpcd patch plus the
   | kernel buffer size patch, but I have not tested the kernel buffer size
   | patch alone.  I've reverted the change to my local version of dhcpcd
   | and will now test to see that the buffer size increase alone is
   | sufficient.
 
 I doubt that is necessary, or even useful.   It is certainly possible that in
 your environment you won't lose any routing messages with the bigger
 buffer, and in that case, the dhcpcd issue won't bother you - but it would
 still be there, until one day, something unusual happens, you get more
 routing socket messages than usual, and one is lost.   The real problem
 is fixed, an occasional message from dhcpcd saying it lost a message
 will harm nothing (since it now recovers properly).
 
 Whatever your results are from that test won't provide any useful info,
 so I just wouldn't waste the time and effort.
 
 kre