]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/linux.git/commit
net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement
authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:51:47 +0000 (13:51 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:29:26 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
commit2af8ff1e472e9862983303890e98d45f40863351
treebcfd456fb2b98759a95ce438d870dbcc5fe60a80
parent38f3cd3703df239badbd439e093b922efbc57ed1
net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement

Quoting Eric Dumazet:
"I do not understand the fascination with net/core/drop_monitor.c [..]
misses all the features, flexibility, scalability  that 'perf',
eBPF tracing, bpftrace, .... have today."

Reword DROP_MONITOR kconfig help text to clearly state that its not
related to perf-based drop monitoring and that its safe to disable
this unless support for the older netlink-based tools is needed.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016115147.18503-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/Kconfig