netdev - Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Create temporary address if none exists.

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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:42:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brian.haley@...com
Cc:	gwurster@....carleton.ca, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	shemminger@...tta.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Create temporary address if none
 exists.

From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:43:16 -0400

> From what I have found, this is fixing the case where we've changed
> use_tempaddr to 1 on an interface that already has a "stable" IPv6
> prefix.  In that case you'll never add a temporary address:

We should have enough information to instantiate the temporary address
when the syscal value is enabled.  So I would prefer if we fixed it
that way.
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