Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [66.187.237.31]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i2J66vKO006234 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:06:57 -0800 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2J5exA00601; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:41:05 -0500 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2J66mj03751; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:06:48 -0500 Received: from cheetah.davemloft.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i2J66X1n001153; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:06:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:06:47 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: Shirley Ma Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, xma@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH]dump interface IPv6 multicast/anycast addresses through netlink Message-Id: <20040318220647.3dbb9c43.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200403171130.30282.mashirle@us.ibm.com> References: <200403171130.30282.mashirle@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 4116 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: davem@redhat.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 364 Lines: 10 On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:30:30 -0800 Shirley Ma wrote: > This patch is against Linux 2.6.4 kernel. It has been tested, 'ip' utility > works fine. This patch is used by IPv6 MIBs. Are we really going to support adding anycast/multicast addresses using RTM_NEW{MULTI,ANY}CAST rtmsgs? If not, let's not add them. Otherwise I like your patch.