From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>
To: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber•org,
dcbw@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipv6 addrconf: add IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag to suppress creation of IP6 routes
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140107122203.GC24730@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389096874.2248.7.camel@weing>
Hi Thomas!
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:14:34PM +0100, Thomas Haller wrote:
> I am about to resent the patch, so that IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE is saved in
> the flags of the address. Later, when deleting such address, this is
> used to indicate ~not~ to delete any prefix route... just as you suggest
> in your earlier email (if I understood you right).
Ok, good.
> About this suggestion now, I tend to "no". Yes, it could be sensible, on
> the other hand, if user space already controls the routes (as indicated
> by it's use of IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTES), I would just leave it to the user
> to clean up the wrong prefix route.
>
> What do you think?
It is a matter of usability. As prefix routes are added to main routing
table and are visible via simple ip -6 r l (and not ip -6 r l table
something), I am fine with that, too.
Greetings,
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-07 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-02 15:34 [patch iproute2 v2 0/2] add support for IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR Jiri Pirko
2014-01-02 15:34 ` [patch iproute2 v2 1/2] add support for extended ifa_flags Jiri Pirko
2014-01-02 15:34 ` [patch iproute2 v2 2/2] add support for IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR Jiri Pirko
2014-01-02 15:50 ` [PATCH 1/1] fixup! " Thomas Haller
2014-01-04 10:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-01-02 17:29 ` [patch iproute2 v2 0/2] " Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-04 10:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-01-04 10:55 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-04 11:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-01-04 11:15 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-04 11:21 ` Thomas Haller
2014-01-04 11:35 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-06 15:41 ` Thomas Haller
2014-01-06 16:01 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-06 17:29 ` [PATCH 1/1] ipv6 addrconf: add IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag to suppress creation of IP6 routes Thomas Haller
2014-01-06 17:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-01-07 9:39 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 12:01 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 12:14 ` Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 12:22 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-01-07 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 14:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ipv6 addrconf: don't cleanup route prefix for IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 16:28 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 18:32 ` Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 19:01 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 22:54 ` Thomas Haller
2014-01-07 23:09 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] ipv6 addrconf: add IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE flag to suppress creation of IP6 routes Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-07 21:42 ` Thomas Haller
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