netdev - Re: [PATCH] [NET] Exporting of some IPv6 symbols for HIP and SHIM6 experimentation

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Message-Id: <20080429.152014.00555445.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	miika@....fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] Exporting of some IPv6 symbols for HIP and SHIM6
 experimentation

From: Miika Komu <miika@....fi>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:07:56 +0300 (EEST)

> Host Identity Protocol (HIP, RFC5201, RFC4423) and Site Multihoming for 
> IPv6 (SHIM6, draft-ietf-shim6-proto-10) define new APIs in the URLs below. 
> This patch exports some IPv6 symbols to help in initial IETF 
> experimentation with external kernel modules for HIP and SHIM6 socket 
> handlers. The SHIM6 and HIP socket handlers are built on top of IPv6 
> socket handlers.
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hip-native-api-04.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api-05.txt
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miika Komu <miika@....fi>

This is not how we do things.

When the HIP implementation is submitted for inclusion, the module
exports can be added, not before.
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