netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: correct the ipv6 option name

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1205171816310.22002@debianer>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 18:21:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Eldad Zack <eldadzack@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: correct the ipv6 option name - Pad0 to Pad1


On Thu, 17 May 2012, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:00:25 +0200
> Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com> wrote:
> 
> > The padding destination or hop-by-hop option is called Pad1 and not Pad0.
> > 
> > See RFC2460 (4.2) or the IANA ipv6-parameters registry:
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters/ipv6-parameters.xml
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@...refinery.com>
> 
> If standards bodies want to call a 0 a 1, then I guess we have to follow :-)

Yeah, Pad0 is a much better name for it. That's probably why it never
occured to any one for so long :-)
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