From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100524.135250.160201215.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100524113118.47cc9852@nehalam> <20100524184713.GA8627@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, emils.tantilov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, stable@kernel.org To: greg@kroah.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52224 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755617Ab0EXUwk (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 16:52:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100524184713.GA8627@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:13 -0700 > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:31:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> Recent changes preserve IPv6 address when link goes down (good). >> But would cause address to point to dead dst entry (bad). >> The simplest fix is to just not delete route if address is >> being held for later use. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller >> (cherry picked from commit 93fa159abe50d3c55c7f83622d3f5c09b6e06f4b) >> --- >> Patch is for 2.6.34-stable (problem doesn't exist in earlier kernel) > > Normally I wait for David to send networking patches for the stable > trees, so I would like to get David's ack on these two before I am > willing to apply them. These two are fine to go to -stable, Greg please integrate.