From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
To: utz.bacher@de.ibm.COM (Utz Bacher)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_inet6addr_notifier
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:06:41 -2000 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107312306.DAA00493@mops.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF119FF657.6688232C-ONC1256A9A.0063BDC0@de.ibm.com> from "Utz Bacher" at Jul 31, 1 11:15:03 pm
Hello!
> attached is a patch which introduces
> * register_inet6addr_notifier
> * unregister_inet6addr_notifier
Nice. But where is a use of this? [For reason of the question, see below].
> cards which provide IP offload capabilities and therfore require knowledge
> of IP addresses.
Very interesting. I am very curious, what kind of "offload" is possible
with current stack are possible. Even if you know addresses. :-)
What's about the patch... Do you understand that currently
it is impossible to call notifiers for adding/deletion of each IPv6 address
in an intelligible context? Not seeing uses of such notifiers,
it is difficult to approve such feature because of danger of misuse
now and even worse misuse in (near) future, when context will change.
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-01 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-31 19:03 [PATCH] register_inet6addr_notifier Utz Bacher
2001-08-01 23:06 ` Alexey Kuznetsov [this message]
2001-08-03 9:32 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-01 18:41 Utz Bacher
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