From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: ipv6 steaming pile of poo... Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:37:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110123.123754.246545770.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51416 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752204Ab1AWUhT (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:37:19 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunset.davemloft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DDD24C088 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:37:54 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks to the fact that I let a change causing known regressions live in the tree for almost a year (don't worry I've learned my lesson): >>From dc2b99f71ef477a31020511876ab4403fb7c4420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stephen hemminger Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:48:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] IPv6: keep permanent addresses on admin down We have over a year of follow-up changes to revert if we want to get rid of this turd. This means getting rid of all the changes that tried to fix bugs in the new ipv6 semantics made by Lorenzo Colitti, and the hlist conversions, and all changes dependent upon those. But no matter, this has to be done and I don't care if we lost lots of cleanups and other work as a result of doing this, it just has to be done. And this is _why_ we must revert changes causing known regressions as soon as they are discovered, not months or a year later. Because after that much time, undoing the damage becomes that much harder. So if you folks wonder what I'm working on the next couple of days, this is it.