Re: PATCH to only announce RTM_NEWADDR once IPv6 DAD completes

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 15/05/2013 14:15, christos%astron.com@localhost wrote:
> > You mean what happens when a conflict is detected?
> > I'm not sure that generating DELADDR is the right thing to do as it
> > does exist within the kernel.
> > Maybe a new message, RTM_DUPADDR? That suffers from the same possible
> > crash for badly written programs though.
>
> Doesn't the tentative bit get passed in the rtm message? Why not pass
> the full information to userland and let it do what it wishes?

This is now what my latest patch does.
Userland is responsible for checking the flags.

Thanks

Roy