From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jgmyers@proofpoint.com
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix incorrect unregistration of sysctl when last ip deleted
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:47:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429.204714.193727944.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBB3480.9020708@proofpoint.com>
From: John Gardiner Myers <jgmyers@proofpoint.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:58:24 -0700
> The "how" parameter indicates the device is being deleted. In this
> case, the device is not being deleted.
It means that ipv6 is being disabled on the device.
Which is what happens when one of the following happens:
1) the MTU is too small to support ipv6 properly
2) no configured ipv6 addresses remain on the device
3) the device is being unregistered
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-30 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201104272312.p3RNCcl6002068@jgmyers-vm1.eng.proofpoint.com>
2011-04-29 20:45 ` [PATCH] ipv6: fix incorrect unregistration of sysctl when last ip deleted David Miller
2011-04-29 21:58 ` John Gardiner Myers
2011-04-30 0:07 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2011-05-01 9:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-04-30 3:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-04-27 23:12 John Myers
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