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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: updates to privacy addresses per RFC 4941.
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:05:14 -0700 (PDT)
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From: lorenzo@google.com (Lorenzo Colitti)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:50:49 -0700 (PDT)

> Update the code to handle some of the differences between
> RFC 3041 and RFC 4941, which obsoletes it. Also a couple
> of janitorial fixes.
> 
> - Allow router advertisements to increase the lifetime of
>   temporary addresses. This was not allowed by RFC 3041,
>   but is specified by RFC 4941. It is useful when RA
>   lifetimes are lower than TEMP_{VALID,PREFERRED}_LIFETIME:
>   in this case, the previous code would delete or deprecate
>   addresses prematurely.
> 
> - Change the default of MAX_RETRY to 3 per RFC 4941.
> 
> - Add a comment to clarify that the preferred and valid
>   lifetimes in inet6_ifaddr are relative to the timestamp.
> 
> - Shorten lines to 80 characters in a couple of places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>

Queued up for net-next, thanks!