netdev - Re: ipv6: Send netlink notification when DAD fails

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Message-Id: <20100313.122340.214239484.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv6: Send netlink notification when DAD fails

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:11:17 +0800

> ipv6: Send netlink notification when DAD fails
> 
> If we are managing IPv6 addresses using DHCP, it would be nice
> for user-space to be notified if an address configured through
> DHCP fails DAD.  Otherwise user-space would have to poll to see
> whether DAD succeeds.
> 
> This patch uses the existing notification mechanism and simply
> hooks it into the DAD failure code path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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