netdev - Re: [PATCH][IPv6] Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linkfanel@...oo.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPv6] Export userland ND options through netlink
 (RDNSS support)

From: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@...oo.fr>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:09:30 +0200

> As discussed before, this patch provides userland with a way to access
> relevant options in Router Advertisements, after they are processed and
> validated by the kernel. Extra options are processed in a generic way;
> this patch only exports RDNSS options described in RFC5006, but support
> to control which options are exported could be easily added.
> 
> A new rtnetlink message type is defined, to transport Neighbor Discovery
> options, along with optional context information. At the moment only
> the address of the router sending an RDNSS option is included, but
> additional attributes may be later defined, if needed by new use cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@...oo.fr>

This seems to include the changes Yoshifuji requested in your
first submission, so I have applied this.

Thanks.
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