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

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Message-Id: <20090318.182306.85470030.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:23:06 -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: Thu,  5 Mar 2009 17:28:40 -0500

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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