netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Can not set the IPV6

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:07:30 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Can not set the IPV6_PKTINFO option

In article <20070716.215605.106156812.yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> (at Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:56:05 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org> says:

> In article <200707161341.23419@...ip-the-willow> (at Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:41:23 +0100), Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk> says:
> 
> > [IPv6]: Can not set the IPV6_PKTINFO option
> > 
> > The Linux manpage of ipv6(7) mentions the IPV6_PKTINFO option (and it is defined in header
> > files), but there is no setsockopt support for it. Aliasing to IPV6_RECVPKTINFO fixes this,
> > and checking datagram_recv_ctl() in net/ipv6/datagram.c confirms that this works as 
> > expected from the API.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
> 
> NAK.  It is obsolete.

I meant, the manpage is outdated.

Current IPV6_PKTINFO is not equal to IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
but a sticky option to set source address / interface
for outgoing packet.

--yoshfuji
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