From: rocco.yue <rocco.yue@mediatek.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: wsd_upstream@mediatek.com,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: ipv6: don't generate link local address on PUREIP device
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:03:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1614045791.6614.3.camel@mbjsdccf07> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1612418761.1817.19.camel@mbjsdccf07>
On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 14:06 +0800, rocco.yue wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 19:07 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:58:09 +0800 Rocco Yue wrote:
> > > PUREIP device such as ccmni does not need kernel to generate
> > > link-local address in any addr_gen_mode, generally, it shall
> > > use the IPv6 Interface Identifier, as provided by the GGSN,
> > > to create its IPv6 link-ocal Unicast Address.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@mediatek.com>
> >
> > There is no ccmni driver in the tree - is this for non-upstream
> > driver?
>
> ccmni is the name of MediaTek mobile interface, currently, it is
> non-upstream driver and we plan to upstream these driver codes this
> year.
>
> Honestly, the reason why upstreamed this patch is not only that it can
> be used by ccmni, but also I observed that the current Linux kernel does
> not generate ipv6 link-local address only when addr_gen_mode ==
> IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE_NONE. We hope kernel can add a device type so that no
> ipv6 link-local address can be generated in any addr_gen_mode.
Hi Jakub,
gentle ping for this patch set.
Thanks
Rocco
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2021-01-30 3:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: ipv6: don't generate link local address on PUREIP device Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-04 6:06 ` rocco.yue
2021-02-23 2:03 ` rocco.yue [this message]
2021-02-23 2:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-23 5:40 ` rocco.yue
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