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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: don't disable interface if last ipv6
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:22:20 +0200

> The reason behind this change is that as soon as we delete
> the last ipv6 address of an interface we also lose the
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<interface> directory. This seems to be a
> usability problem for me.
> 
> I don't see any reason why we should shutdown ipv6 on that interface in
> such cases.
> 
> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

Applied.