netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: add sk opt to allow sending pkt with src 0.0.0.0

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Message-Id: <20131114.145708.640925730076403111.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:57:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David.Laight@...LAB.COM, jiri@...nulli.us, vyasevich@...il.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, thaller@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: add sk opt to allow sending pkt
 with src 0.0.0.0

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:05:00 +0100

> Le 11/11/2013 06:18, David Miller a écrit :
>> Furthermore, the fact that you're implementing _addressing_ policy in
>> the UDP code makes this change even more unreasonable.
>>
> I made this choice because using 0.0.0.0, for TCP for example, seems a
> non-sense.

It's at the very least something applicable to all datagram sockets.
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