Re: [PATCH] s390 - mark IPv6 support for QETH as broken

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <20040709123005.086fdfc5.davem@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:30:05 -0700), "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:22:53 +0200
> Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The original submission is recorded on
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-net&m=104551077013011&w=2. And the
> > complaint was that it puts '"ipv6 stuff" into the generic netdevice
> > structure'. I don't know if this can be solved another way.
> 
> Put it in the inet6device private area.

David, inet6device area is created when we create first address.
The first address is likely link-local address based on
mac address, and kernel detects address duplication and 
delete the inet6device.  Finally, we don't have inet6device.

> It's been a year, and you haven't put forth the effort to look
> for solutions like that?

I'd suggest following approach.
 1. support up/down via netlink interface.
 2. add IFLA_IFID (or something like that) (RTM_NEWLINK attribute)
    inet6 layer create inet6device without an address
    when receiving this.

User will be able to do
 # ip link eth0 up eui64 de:ad:be:ef:ca:fe:ba:be
or something like this.

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