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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: galak@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com
Subject: Re: NIP6_FMT "breaks" ifconfig
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:05:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060117.150528.108145661.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26F1D638-7A96-48C6-9191-74363C497820@kernel.crashing.org>

From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:35:01 -0600

> The use of NIP6_FMT from kernel.h in net/ipv6/addrconf.c changes how / 
> proc/net/if_inet6 format's IPv6 addresses and thus breaks ifconfig's  
> ability to display IPv6 addresses.  I'm not sure if this is  
> acceptable breakage of a userspace app or not.

I know, I have a fix from Yoshifuji in my tree and I'll
make sure Linus gets it.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17 22:35 NIP6_FMT "breaks" ifconfig Kumar Gala
2006-01-17 23:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-01-17 23:12   ` Kumar Gala

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