From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: jbohac@suse•cz, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
stable@kernel•org, stephen.hemminger@vyatta•com,
maheshkelkar@gmail•com, brian.haley@hp•com,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt•eu>,
lorenzo@google•com
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:21:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k4hv5sue.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110123213444.70d0b0f1@s6510> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:34:44 +1100")
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com> writes:
> I think this fixes the issue with disable_ipv6
Somehow I doubt deleting the ipv6 state, and removing the per device
disable_ipv6 flag is going to be backwards compatible.
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/disable_ipv6
Won't work.
What ever other good properties calling NETDEV_UNREGISTER for ipv6
devices may have.
Eric
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2011-01-23 20:30:25.897243002 +1100
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c 2011-01-23 20:30:41.161243002 +1100
> @@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@ static void dev_disable_change(struct in
> return;
>
> if (idev->cnf.disable_ipv6)
> - addrconf_notify(NULL, NETDEV_DOWN, idev->dev);
> + addrconf_notify(NULL, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, idev->dev);
> else
> addrconf_notify(NULL, NETDEV_UP, idev->dev);
> }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-23 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 0:24 echo > 0 .../disable_ipv6 broken in 2.6.37-rc4 Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 0:33 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2010-12-06 0:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 5:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-06 16:10 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 22:49 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-08 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 23:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 2:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 3:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 4:16 ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 15:28 ` Brian Haley
2010-12-09 16:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 19:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-09 19:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 20:20 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 20:20 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 21:28 ` [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-16 23:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17 1:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-17 2:26 ` David Miller
2011-01-19 19:18 ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-19 19:56 ` Jiri Bohac
2011-01-19 20:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-22 8:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-01-22 22:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-22 22:54 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 4:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 5:42 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 8:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 8:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 9:15 ` [stable] " Willy Tarreau
2011-01-23 9:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 10:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-23 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2011-01-23 19:57 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 19:48 ` David Miller
2011-01-23 19:47 ` David Miller
2010-12-10 4:02 ` [PATCH] Fix 2.6.34-rc1 regression in disable_ipv6 support Stephen Hemminger
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