From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101105.081254.193711384.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: maze@google.com, brian.haley@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: lorenzo@google.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52292 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751538Ab0KEPMa (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:12:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Lorenzo Colitti Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:45:28 +0800 > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: >>> Fix it so that none of this state is updated if the address is being kept on the interface. > > David, any feedback on this? The existing code clearly has the > intention of keeping the addresses around, except they don't actually > work, and this just fixes the bug. I'm travelling and busy at Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference, so I'm only processing the most easiest patches this week. I'll look into this when I get back.