From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] ipv6: Enable netlink notification for tentative addresses.
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:27:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100826.142755.15249596.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C76DA62.8040109@candelatech.com>
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:19:30 -0700
> In our case, we enable IPv6 in user-space, and then we want to get
> some immediate indication that indeed the process is working as
> expected.
When DAD completes, you'll get a similar indication.
> In other cases, we want to remove all IPv6 addresses, so if we have
> not even been notified that the IP exists, then we cannot know how
> to delete it.
You can add a netlink message to accomplish that. This has been
asked for in other contexts as well.
> We've been running this patch for several years, and it has not
> caused any obvious problems with other tools, so I think it's safe
> enough.
And your level of exposure compared to upstream is...? :-)
Anyways, even if it's implemented in an error free way it's still
not necessary the best way to go about this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-26 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-25 18:26 [net-next] ipv6: Enable netlink notification for tentative addresses Ben Greear
2010-08-26 4:24 ` David Miller
2010-08-26 18:50 ` Ben Greear
2010-08-26 19:57 ` Brian Haley
2010-08-26 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-08-26 21:19 ` Ben Greear
2010-08-26 21:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-27 4:24 ` Ben Greear
2010-08-26 21:22 ` Ben Greear
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