netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Export DNSSL RA option to userspace

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Message-ID: <20101214144319.02eced29@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
Date:	Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:43:19 +0100
From:	Pierre Ossman <pierre-list@...man.eu>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Export DNSSL RA option to userspace

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:10:15 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 14:43 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > RFC 6106 specifies a new RA option for DNS resolver configuration that
> > therefore needs to end up in userspace.
> > 
> > This first patch just exports the new option, but I started thinking
> > that this seems overly complex that the kernel needs to be updated
> > every time there is something new of interest to userspace in the RA.
> > So I also have a second patch that exports everything that the kernel
> > doesn't want.
> > 
> > Patches only compile tested so far as I'm still hacking away at
> > userspace. Comments very much welcome though.
> 
> Totally untested userspace support:
> http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/connman.git
> 

Tested userspace support in the form of NetworkManager: ;)

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637077

And a radvd to send things out:

http://lists.litech.org/pipermail/radvd-devel-l/2010-December/000507.html

Rgds
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