Re: IPv6 support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 23:19 -0400, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:03:10PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:53 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:41 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > David could shed more light here, but I'm 95% sure that the kernel
> > > > _used_ to only configure the device for IPv6 when something _else_
> > > > configurated a valid LL address for the device.  NetworkManager does
> > > > that, maybe some other tool is doing so?  Or maybe the kernel does it
> > > > automagically now for some reason if you poke something in sysfs?
> > > 
> > > The kernel always did it automatically. NetworkManager removes the LL
> > > address when it initialises the interface (it removes _all_ addresses).
> > 
> > Ah, right, that's why we add it _back_ due to the flushing.  That'll get
> > better in the near term.
> 
> Are the following patches ok (first makes it only flush on ipv4, second
> one remove the link-local stuff) ?

Applied, thanks!

Dan