netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD

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Message-ID: <20210624053159.22345-1-rocco.yue@mediatek.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:31:59 +0800
From:   Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>, <chao.song@...iatek.com>,
        <kuohong.wang@...iatek.com>, Rocco Yue <rocco.yue@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: if_arp: add ARPHRD_PUREIP type

On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 23:15 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
On 6/23/21 9:33 PM, Rocco Yue wrote:
>> 
>> The difference between RAWIP and PUREIP is that they generate IPv6
>> link-local address and IPv6 global address in different ways.
>> 
>> RAWIP:
>> ~~~~~~
>> In the ipv6_generate_eui64() function, using RAWIP will always return 0,
>> which will cause the kernel to automatically generate an IPv6 link-local
>> address in EUI64 format and an IPv6 global address in EUI64 format.
>> 
>> PUREIP:
>> ~~~~~~~
>> After this patch set, when using PUREIP, kernel doesn't generate IPv6
>> link-local address regardless of which IN6_ADDR_GEN_MODE is used.
>> 
>> @@  static void addrconf_dev_config(struct net_device *dev)
>> +       if (dev->type == ARPHRD_PUREIP)
>> +               return;
>> 
>> And after recving RA message, kernel iterates over the link-local address
>> that exists for the interface and uses the low 64bits of the link-local
>> address to generate the IPv6 global address.
>> The general process is as follows:
>> ndisc_router_discovery() -> addrconf_prefix_rcv() ->
>> ipv6_generate_eui64() -> ipv6_inherit_eui64()
>> 
> 
> please add that to the commit message.

Thanks for your reminding, will do.

Thanks,
Rocco