netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

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Message-Id: <20110122.214254.226765382.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:42:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, jbohac@...e.cz, brian.haley@...com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshkelkar@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:41:12 -0800 (PST)

> Having IPv6 remove all addresses when link goes down is fundamentally broken
> that is what the original problem being fixed. For users on servers or using
> Quagga this matters, how do you plan to fix that?

How about in a way that doesn't break stuff?

And it's been beyond proven that people give more of a crap
about disable_ipv6 than the thing you keep claiming is a big deal.

NOBODY other than you even noticed the issue or made a report about
it.

Yet we have people actively complaining about disable_ipv6 being
broken.

So you lose on two counts.  You can't fix things by breaking other
stuff, and your obscure stuff matters less than things people
actually notice being broken.
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