Re: [PATCH] ipv6: always add flag an address that failed DAD with DADFAILED

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 08:49:56 EST


On 08.01.2016 13:47, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
The userspace needs to know why is the address being removed so that it can
perhaps obtain a new address.

Without the DADFAILED flag it's impossible to distinguish removal of a
temporary and tentative address due to DAD failure from other reasons (device
removed, manual address removal).

Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>