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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Create temporary address if none
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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:43:16 -0400

> From what I have found, this is fixing the case where we've changed
> use_tempaddr to 1 on an interface that already has a "stable" IPv6
> prefix.  In that case you'll never add a temporary address:

We should have enough information to instantiate the temporary address
when the syscal value is enabled.  So I would prefer if we fixed it
that way.