netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] ipv6/addrconf: allow adding multicast addr if IFA_F

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Message-ID: <4306235d-db31-bf06-9d26-ce19319feae3@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:33:58 -0400
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Madhu Challa <challa@...ronetworks.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] ipv6/addrconf: allow adding multicast addr if
 IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN is set

On 8/19/19 10:19 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
> address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.

If true, that is really disappointing.

We need to get a functional test script started for various address cases.