From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IPv6: keep route for tentative address Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20100524184713.GA8627@kroah.com> References: <20100412154130.397252857@vyatta.com> <20100412154255.641453741@vyatta.com> <20100524113118.47cc9852@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Emil S Tantilov , "David S. Miller" , NetDev , "Tantilov, Emil S" , stable@kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33938 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754488Ab0EXSuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2010 14:50:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100524113118.47cc9852@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. thanks, greg k-h