Mitsuru Chinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On linux-2.6.21-rc2 or later, IPv6 link-local address is not assigned to > some kind of interfaces during system start-up. (I found this issue > occures with e100, e1000 and tg3.)
Here is an alternative fix. [IPV6]: Do not set IF_READY if device is down Now that we add the IPv6 device at registration time we don't need to set IF_READY in ipv6_add_dev anymore because we will always get a NETDEV_UP event later on should the device ever become ready. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index e16f1bb..a7fee6b 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -342,10 +342,6 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(struct net_device *dev) } #endif - if (netif_carrier_ok(dev)) - ndev->if_flags |= IF_READY; - - ipv6_mc_init_dev(ndev); ndev->tstamp = jiffies; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
