netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix incorrect disable

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:24:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brian.haley@...com
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix incorrect disable_ipv6 behavior

From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:52:40 -0400

> Brian Haley wrote:
> > Fix the behavior of allowing both sysctl and addrconf_dad_failure()
> > to set the disable_ipv6 parameter without any bad side-effects.
> > If DAD fails and accept_dad > 1, we will still set disable_ipv6=1,
> > but then instead of allowing an RA to add an address then
> > immediately fail DAD, we simply don't allow the address to be
> > added in the first place.  This also lets the user set this flag
> > and disable all IPv6 addresses on the interface, or on the entire
> > system.
> 
> So I haven't seen an Ack/Nack for this patch, and the patchwork queue has shrunk
> to just a handful in the past few hours :)

It's near the top of my queue, I'm just debating what tree
to stick it into.

Probably I'll put it into net-next-2.6
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