Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:46:42AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> > I think that would be ok. Unrelated to this: for IFA_ADDRESS we don't
> > do an exact match, perhaps we should also do this for IFA_LOCAL for
> > consistency.
>
> You mean that we do do an exact match for IFA_ADDRESS?
No, I meant that IFA_ADDRESS matches on exact prefixlen, but uses
inet_ifa_match() for comparing the addresses. In any case we should
keep the behaviour that no given prefix is a wildcard, but if a
prefix is given we could do something similar as for IFA_ADDRESS.

Regards
Patrick