netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: ipv6: also allow token to be set when device not ready

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Message-ID: <20130409203754.GC14572@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:37:54 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: ipv6: also allow token to be set when device not ready

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:47:15PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> When we set the iftoken in inet6_set_iftoken(), we return -EINVAL
> when the device does not have flag IF_READY. This is however not
> necessary and rather an artificial usability barrier, since we
> simply can set the token despite that, and in case the device is
> ready, we just send out our rs, otherwise ifup et al. will do
> this for us anyway.
> 
> Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

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