From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754958Ab0JAAmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:42:35 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33317 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752632Ab0JAAme (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:42:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100930.174254.184831800.davem@davemloft.net> To: brian.haley@hp.com Cc: gwurster@scs.carleton.ca, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, ebiederm@xmission.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6 v2] IPv6: Create temporary address if none exists. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4CA35084.8010503@hp.com> References: <20100927170430.GA7106@adams.ccsl.carleton.ca> <20100928.222510.71109554.davem@davemloft.net> <4CA35084.8010503@hp.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Brian Haley Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:43:16 -0400 > From what I have found, this is fixing the case where we've changed > use_tempaddr to 1 on an interface that already has a "stable" IPv6 > prefix. In that case you'll never add a temporary address: We should have enough information to instantiate the temporary address when the syscal value is enabled. So I would prefer if we fixed it that way.