From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: hannes@redhat.com, hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why are IPv6 addresses removed on link down
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:25:42 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150113.122542.815831933030545121.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B53187.7080306@gmail.com>
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:53:59 -0700
> Bottom line is there a harm in removing the flush? If there is no harm
> will mainline kernel take a patch to do that or is your backward
> compatibility concern enough to block it?
Backward compatibility trumps all other concerns here, and I say is
enough to block changing the behavior. One which we've had for more
than a decade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-13 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 5:06 why are IPv6 addresses removed on link down David Ahern
2015-01-13 7:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-01-13 10:35 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 11:58 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-01-13 12:15 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-01-13 12:36 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 14:53 ` David Ahern
2015-01-13 15:00 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 17:05 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-01-13 15:00 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-01-13 15:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-01-13 15:13 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-01-13 17:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-01-13 17:34 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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