From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: Prohibit assignment of 0.0.0.0 as interface address.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:34:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080125083404.5f3c6176@deepthought> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201269123-20378-3-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:51:59 +0300
"Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org> wrote:
> I could hardly imagine why sombady needs to assign 0.0.0.0 as an interface
> address or interface destination address. The kernel will behave in a strage
> way in several places if this is possible, as ifa_local != 0 is considered
> as initialized/non-initialized state of the ifa.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
>
This is used as a way to bring device up in lots of existing documentation.
So please don't change.
--
Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 13:51 [PATCH 1/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: Fix memory leak on error path during FIB initialization Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: Small style cleanup of the error path in rtm_to_ifaddr Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 13:51 ` [PATCH 3/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: Prohibit assignment of 0.0.0.0 as interface address Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 14:01 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-25 14:13 ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 14:37 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-25 14:48 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-25 15:12 ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 15:12 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-01-25 16:34 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-01-25 13:52 ` [PATCH 4/7 net-2.6.25] [NETNS]: Process interface address manipulation routines in the namespace Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 13:52 ` [PATCH 5/7 net-2.6.25] [IPV4]: fib_sync_down rework Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 13:52 ` [PATCH 6/7 net-2.6.25] [NETNS]: Add a namespace mark to fib_info Denis V. Lunev
2008-01-25 13:52 ` [PATCH 7/7 net-2.6.25] [NETNS]: Lookup in FIB semantic hashes taking into account the namespace Denis V. Lunev
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