From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:47:56 +1100
> 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]> Indeed, this looks like it will do the right thing. And if you look into the history of the code in this area I think you'll find that this snippet being removed existed exactly because inet6_dev creation happened long after the device was registered. - 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
