Re: iproute2 and regressing "ipv6: convert tunnels to net_device_ops"

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday 09 March 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> (Cc'ed netdev ml)

Tracked as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12868 .

> On Monday 2009-03-09 14:14, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Monday 09 March 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> commit 1326c3d5a4b792a2b15877feb7fb691f8945d203 
> >> (v2.6.28-rc6-461-g23a12b1) broke the display of local and remote 
> >> addresses of an SIT tunnel in iproute2. Instead of the addresses 
> >> assigned, it only displays 0.0.0.0. The version of iproute2 is 2.6.25, 
> >> as shipped with openSUSE 11.1.
> >> 
> >> Before:
> >> # ip t a sit7 mode sit remote 1.2.3.4 local 5.6.7.8
> >> # ip a
> >> 7: sit7@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop stat DOWN
> >>     link/sit 5.6.7.8 peer 1.2.3.4
> >> 
> >> After:
> >> 7: sit7@NONE: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop stat DOWN
> >>     link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> >> 
> >> ---->
> >> commit 23a12b14715e2dcd34dc8002927263ad3437344c
> >> Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> >> Date:   Thu Nov 20 20:33:56 2008 -0800
> >> 
> >>     ipv6: convert tunnels to net_device_ops
> >>     
> >>     Like IPV4, convert the tunnel virtual devices to use net_device_ops.
> >>     
> >>     Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> >>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> >> 
> >> :040000 040000 23483d156e517904d31dd7e2276a0ff8a25f2ecc 
> >> 395574b3a80869307a5e936a02598476f7e1c49b M      net
> >> <----
> >
> >If you want me to track this, please send a copy to a mailing list with
> >archives to which I can link or file a bugzilla report (with CC to me).

Thanks,
Rafael