From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:53:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20090318215259.GA3130@ami.dom.local> References: <20090317.123146.210941276.davem@davemloft.net> <20090318091307.GB4799@ff.dom.local> <20090318.143635.87275958.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, felix-kernel@fefe.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.186]:27645 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760709AbZCRVyM (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:54:12 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i7so126710tid.23 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090318.143635.87275958.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:36:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote: ... > And yes we should advise people what is an appropriate way to > accomplish some task. If we aren't the experts on such a topic, > then who the hell is? Only if sb. is looking for advice; otherwise it's not very nice, especially if repeated many times. Jarek P.