From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lorenzo@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, maze@google.com, brian.haley@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:45:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112.134519.52180921.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimLicmgC3BptZvXGoA0aN6-cFJtRG3DpqJ3NTpJ@mail.gmail.com>
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:45:17 -0700
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
>> Fix it so that none of this state is updated if the address is being kept on the interface.
>
> Or, since the logic of the patched code is a little hard to follow,
> here's an alternative patch against 2.6.36. I think it does exactly
> the same as the previous patch, but it moves things around to make the
> result more readable.
>
> Tested: Added a statically configured IPv6 address to an interface,
> started ping, brought link down, brought link up again. When link came
> up ping kept on going and "ip -6 maddr" showed that the host was still
> subscribed to there
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Ok, this looks good, applied.
Thanks for your patience.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 4:16 [PATCH] ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept Lorenzo Colitti
2010-10-28 6:45 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-11-05 6:45 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-11-05 15:12 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 21:45 ` David Miller [this message]
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