From 3e25c65ed085b361cc91a8f02e028f1158c9f255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:38:47 -0600
Subject: net: neighbour: Remove CONFIG_ARPD

This config option is superfluous in that it only guards a call
to neigh_app_ns(). Enabling CONFIG_ARPD by default has no
change in behavior. There will now be call to __neigh_notify()
for each ARP resolution, which has no impact unless there is a
user space daemon waiting to receive the notification, i.e.,
the case for which CONFIG_ARPD was designed anyways.

Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'net/core')

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 60533db..6072610 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2759,13 +2759,11 @@ errout:
 		rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_NEIGH, err);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
 void neigh_app_ns(struct neighbour *n)
 {
 	__neigh_notify(n, RTM_GETNEIGH, NLM_F_REQUEST);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(neigh_app_ns);
-#endif /* CONFIG_ARPD */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 static int zero;
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