netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5] net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional

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Message-Id: <20151014.180659.1860914575436401565.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:06:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hannes@...hat.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown
 optional

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:09:59 -0600

> This latest patch makes IPv6 static addresses on par with IPv4,
> including error paths.

I don't agree with ipv4's behavior... and just because ipv4 does
something poorly doesn't mean we get a free pass to replicate that
lazyness in ipv6.
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