netdev - Re: The mystery of optimistic ipv6 DAD handling

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Message-Id: <20111228.133933.866545698956085305.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:39:33 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The mystery of optimistic ipv6 DAD handling

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:19:28 -0500

> Yeah, If the premise that the test never triggers is true (and it seems like
> you've confirmed that), then theres no harm in removing it.  It still
> seems like we might still need the test somewhere (maybe on a manual route add).
> I've family in town, so I'm not able to look at this closely today, but I'd say this
> is at least a harmless change right now.  Lets take this change, and I'll
> re-read the RFC and look for appropriate code paths where we may need this
> test in a few days.  Thanks Dave!
> 
> Acked-By: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

Thanks for reviewing Neil, I've applied this patch to net-next.
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