From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, yuhuang@redhat.com,
justin.iurman@gmail.com, horms@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
kuba@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, davem@davemloft.net,
idosch@nvidia.com, dsahern@kernel.org,
Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>,
Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>,
ihuguet@redhat.com, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: IPv6 address insertion order (was Re: [PATCH net v2] Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses")
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:46:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da080bf1-fa2b-402a-a249-ee5ac004fb05@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ah57wxGjL7JBORR1@zatzit>
On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 04:44:19PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> I get the impression there's a rough consensus that the best we can do
> now is revert this change (already done), and make a new patch which
> changes the insertion order to the "correct" one conditional on a new
> flag.
>
> Stefano has enough other fires to fight, so I'm taking a look at
> implementing that. Some initial thoughts, that I'm soliciting
> feedback on:
I've only been partially reading along...
Are we talking about RTM_NEWADDR?
I've never worked on the code dealing with addresses. But in general,
if you want to add new functionality to a netlink message, you add a
new attribute to the message.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.0.10/source/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h#L26
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-02 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-29 11:23 [PATCH net v2] Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses" Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-29 11:41 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-29 11:45 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-05-29 12:06 ` Chris Adams
2026-06-01 2:03 ` Matthieu Baerts
2026-06-01 13:35 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-06-01 14:01 ` Íñigo Huguet
2026-06-01 14:22 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2026-06-02 6:44 ` IPv6 address insertion order (was Re: [PATCH net v2] Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses") David Gibson
2026-06-02 12:46 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2026-06-02 13:21 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-05-29 20:20 ` [PATCH net v2] Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses" patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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