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

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Message-Id: <20070716.232505.120810403.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:25:05 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Can not set the IPV6_PKTINFO option

In article <200707161514.06324@...ip-the-willow> (at Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:14:06 +0100), Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk> says:

> |  That is, someone needs to send a patch to the upstream manpages
> |  maintainer and fix the documentation to actually describe what the
> |  code does.
> |  
> If it is simply replacing IPV6_PKTINFO with IPV6_RECVPKTINFO then I'd be happy to do this.
> Anything more complicated than that - it would be good to have some of the developers taking
> a look. 
> 
> Here is the text of the manpage (ipv6 in section 7):
> 
> IPV6_PKTINFO
>   Set delivery of the IPV6_PKTINFO control message on incoming datagrams.  
>   Only allowed for SOCK_DGRAM  or  SOCK_RAW sockets.  Argument is a pointer to a 
>   boolean value in an integer.

Description is outdated (RFC2292).
Current Linux basically follows RFC3542.

--yoshfuji
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