netdev - Re: [net-next] ipv6: Enable netlink notification for tentative addresses.

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Message-Id: <20100826.131801.246519955.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brian.haley@...com
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] ipv6: Enable netlink notification for tentative
 addresses.

From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:57:51 -0400

> But then we get a message for an address that can't be used because
> it hasn't passed DAD, I'm not so sure that is a good thing,
> especially if we don't get notified when it passes DAD.

I think that we shouldn't send notifications for an address that can't
even be used.  So essentially I argue against this patch in any form :)

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