netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't accept multicast traffic with scop 0

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Message-ID: <1360621271.2701.20.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:21:11 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<hannes@...essinduktion.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, <erik.hugne@...csson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't accept multicast traffic with scop 0

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 14:52 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:48:35 +0100
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:48:51PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> >> +	/*
> >> +	 * RFC4291 2.7
> >> +	 * Nodes must not originate a packet to a multicast address whose scop
> >> +	 * field contains the reserved value 0; if such a packet is received, it
> >> +	 * must be silently dropped.
> > 
> > Just nit-picking: The field is actually called scop without e, as pointed out
> > by three erratas to RFC4291. :)
> 
> That's funny because I added the 'e' to your patches while applying
> them, it just looks completely stupid to refer to this things as
> 'scop'.

It seems to be a long Unix tradition to creat names with trailing silent
vowels removed; this is hardly uniq.

Ben.

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