netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: ipv6: allow explicitly choosing optimistic addresses

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Message-ID: <CAKD1Yr3S7djuqVtS7hTBn552kEW+wedHCyop_oEv+EP_rzN5SA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:24:09 +0900
From:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:	Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: ipv6: allow explicitly choosing optimistic addresses

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com> wrote:
> This change makes optimistic addresses treated more like
> deprecated addresses than tentative ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>

This looks correct now. Adding the extra shim function is clearly less
churn than the alternative of changing all the callers (20 files) to
pass in the extra argument, though it's true that the resulting code
is a bit less elegant.

Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
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