Re: [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace

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On Friday 2010-07-23 06:54, Changli Gao wrote:

>This patch should be applied after my another patch:
>http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59729/
>
>xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace
>
>In nowadays, table entries are per-cpu variables, so it don't make any 
>sense to copy quota back to one of the variable instances. To keep 
>things simple, this patch undo the copy.

I object. This line is on purpose, to give at least a chance of 
reporting back a more-or-less believable value. Without copying
the value back, users have moaned about the counter not decreasing
_at all_.
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