netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Revert 'administrative down' address handling changes.

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:51:19 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com, brian.haley@...com,
	lorenzo@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Revert 'administrative down' address handling changes.

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:41:01 -0800 (PST)
>
>> Eric B. and co., please do some testing to make sure all of your
>> disable_ipv6 cases are functioning properly with this applied.
>
> Ping?

In progress.  I had to make a small change to your patch to get it
to apply against 2.6.37.  neigh_ifdown has not been removed from the
beginning of addrconf_ifdown there.  The piece that was failing for
me is not failing now so, so far so good.

It was reported that in 2.6.37 there was a new regression that
1connecting to ::1 when ipv6 was disabled would not fail immediately but
would have to wait a while.  With your patch applied I am not seeing
that behavior either.

Tomorrow I should know if I see any weird side effects with your patch,
after my regression tests for everything else have finished running.

My apologies for not testing Stephens patch more thoroughly in the lead
up to 2.6.37.  I goofed and bear some of the responsibility.  Hopefully
we can get the deeper problems fixed, and make Stephens use case work as
well.

Eric

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